The prisoner as model organism: malaria research at Stateville Penitentiary

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 190-203

  Comfort, Nathaniel ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedicine; Human experimentation; Malaria chemotherapy; Model organisms; Panopticon

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ETHICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALARIA; MEDICAL ETHICS; MILITARY MEDICINE; MOSQUITO; PRISON; PRISONER; PUNISHMENT; RESEARCH ETHICS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CULICIDAE; ETHICS, MEDICAL; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; MALARIA; MILITARY MEDICINE; PRISONERS; PRISONS; PUNISHMENT;

EID: 69249222487     PISSN: 13698486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2009.06.007     Document Type: Article

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