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Creators/Contributors

Author/Creator Hornblum, Allen M. Contributor Newman, Judith L.Dober, Gregory J.

Contents/Summary

Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-259) and index. Contents

• Introduction: “They’d come for you at night”
• The age of heroic medicine: “At their best, medical men are the highest type yet reached by mankind”
• Eugenics and the devaluing of institutionalized children: “The elimination of defectives”
• World War II, patriotism and the Nuremburg Code: “It was a good code for barbarians”
• Impact of the Cold War on human experimentation: “There weren’t any guidelines as I can recall”
• Vaccines: “Institutions for hydrocephalics and other similar unfortunates”
• Skin, dietary, and dental studies: “The kids in these institutions are so desperate for affection”
• Radiation experiments on children: “The littlest dose of radiation possible”
• Psychological treatment: “Lobotomy…is often the starting point in effective treatment”
• Psychological abuse: “I call that brainwashing”
• Reproduction and sexuality experiments: “They treated those girls just as if…