Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison

by Allen M . Hornblum (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1998

  $142.88

  Raises provocative questions about human rights, prison treatment, and medical and research ethics. Based on research into Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison in the 1950s and 1970s, where inmates were used as guinea pigs in medical experiments.

• New

  Paperback
  1999

  $48.56

  Based on experiments on inmates in Philadelphia's Holmsburg Prison in the 1950s-1970s, this book raises provocative questions about human rights, prison treatment and medical and research ethics.