Hornblum, Allen M. <br/><br/>
Against their will :  the secret history of medical experimentation on children in Cold War America / 
Allen M. Hornblum, Judith L. Newman and Gregory J. Dober. 
 - New York, NY :  Palgrave Macmillan,  c2013. 
 - 266 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-259) and index. 
<br/><br/> Documents the use, in Cold War America, of children institutionalized in public facilities as test subjects in dangerous medical experiments in which they were used to test vaccines, study the effects of LSD and radioactive foods, and try out radical procedures such as electric shock treatments and lobotomies. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780230341715 (trade) 0230341713 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012051032 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Pediatrics--Research--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.<br/>Children--Research--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.<br/>Human experimentation in medicine--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Medicine--Research--Ethical aspects.--United States<br/>Children and research--Ethical aspects.<br/>Human experimentation in medicine--History--United States--20th century.<br/>SCIENCE / History.<br/>HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.<br/>SCIENCE / Experiments & Projects.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>174.2/9892