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In the 1960s, University of Cincinnati radiologist Eugene Saenger infamously conducted human experiments on patients with advanced cancer to examine how total body radiation could treat the disease. Using the Saenger case as a means to reconsider cold war medical trials, this book examines the tensions at the heart of clinical studies of the time.

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"What is truly original about Contested Medicine is that, by using the science studies approach applied to a specific historical case, Kutcher shows not only how ethics were constitutive of the shape of experimental work on cancer at its inception but how both of these things were mutually changed over time." - Christopher Lawrence, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London"

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      Publisher: University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 4/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226465319, 978-0226465319
      ISBN10: 0226465314
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      Book Synopsis
      In the 1960s, University of Cincinnati radiologist Eugene Saenger infamously conducted human experiments on patients with advanced cancer to examine how total body radiation could treat the disease. Using the Saenger case as a means to reconsider cold war medical trials, this book examines the tensions at the heart of clinical studies of the time.

      Trade Review
      "What is truly original about Contested Medicine is that, by using the science studies approach applied to a specific historical case, Kutcher shows not only how ethics were constitutive of the shape of experimental work on cancer at its inception but how both of these things were mutually changed over time." - Christopher Lawrence, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London"

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