- Convict labor, Dermatology, Holmesburg Prison, Human experimentation in medicine
In this expose, Allen M. Hornblum tells the story of Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison. From the early 1950s through the mid-1970s, Holmesburg's inmates were used, in exchange for a few dollars, as guinea pigs in a host of medical experiments.
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- Author
- Allen M. Hornblum
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781134001651
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