Contested medicine
Subtitle: cancer research and the military
By: Gerald Kutcher.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780226465319
Subjects: Cancer -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Clinical trials -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Radiation -- Physiological effect -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Medicine, Military -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States; Human Experimentation -- ethics; Neoplasms -- radiotherapy; Clinical Trials as Topic -- ethics; Military Medicine -- history; Whole-Body Irradiation -- history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cancer clinical trials; title: The production of trustworthy knowledge; title: Military medicine and cancer therapy; title: Cancer patients as proxy soldiers; title: A cancer patient's story; title: Peer review; title: Public disclosure; title: Ethical judgment.