| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.4

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Jordan Goodman, Anthony McElligott, and Lara Marks, editors. Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2003. Pp. vi, 217. $42.00.
This excellent volume treats human experimentation in Britain and the United States from 1920 to 1970. The focus is not on informed consent but on how physicians, governments, and the military laid claim to individual human bodies in order to protect what they defined as the health of the nation. One purpose is to show that the nontherapeutic experiments carried out in Nazi Germany were not unique but, in many ways, characteristic of mainstream medicine throughout the period. These carefully researched essays also contribute to our understanding of ethical practices surrounding such experiments before the establishment of the Nuremberg Code in the 1940s.	1
David S. Jones and Robert L. Martensen's essay on radiation experiments at the University of California, San Francisco, and Berkeley in 1937–1962, for example, explores the deep moral dilemmas that surrounded daring experiments with humans. Faced with a woman whom doctors had given up as terminally ill, John Lawrence, a Berkeley physicist and pioneer in medical applications of radioisotopes, trained his million-volt x-ray tube—one of only two in the nation at the time—on his mother's abdomen. Although she pleaded for him to stop, he persisted, and she went on to live a healthy life for twenty-two more years.	. . .

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