Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison: Allen Hornblum
From Library Journal
Relying on prisoners’ firsthand reports, Hornblum (urban studies, Temple Univ.) has written a thorough account of the questionable medical experimentation carried out in Philadelphia’s Holmesburg Prison from the mid-1940s to 1974. Research on everything from cosmetics to chemical warfare agents was conducted there, often [...]











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