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Sentenced to Science: One Black Man's Story of Imprisonment in America

by Allen Hornblum

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"Sentenced to Science" is a searing indictment of the criminal justice and medical communities that cavalierly used Philadelphia inmates as human guinea pigs for an array of unethical and dangerous experiments. The account of Eddie Anthony's days as a Holmesburg Prison test subject is one that readers will not soon forget."
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ISBN:
9780271033365
Subtitle:
One Black Man's Story of Imprisonment in America
Author:
Hornblum, Allen
Author:
Hornblum, Allen M.
Publisher:
Pennsylvania State University Press
Subject:
Penology
Subject:
Prisons
Subject:
Healing
Subject:
Prisoners
Subject:
Human experimentation in medicine
Subject:
Anthony, Edward
Series:
Penn State Press Penn State Press
Publication Date:
December 2007
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
207
Dimensions:
9.22x6.42x.90 in. 1.17 lbs.
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