Contested medicine cancer research and the military
In the 1960s University of Cincinnati radiologist Eugene Saenger infamously conducted human experiments on patients with advanced cancer to examine how total body radiation could treat the disease. But, under contract with the Department of Defense, Saenger also used those same patients as proxies f...
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University of Chicago Press
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- Cancer clinical trials
- The production of trustworthy knowledge
- Military medicine and cancer therapy
- Cancer patients as proxy soldiers
- A cancer patient's story
- Peer review
- Public disclosure
- Ethical judgment.