They were cheap and available: Prisoners as research subjects in twentieth century America

British Medical Journal

Volumn 315, Issue 7120, 1997, Pages 1437-1441

  Hornblum, Allen M ^a,b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTATION; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISONER; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030726427     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.315.7120.1437     Document Type: Review

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