Jordan Goodman is an honorary research fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London. Anthony McElligott is founding professor of history at the University of Limerick and director of the Centre for Historical Research. Lara Marks is a visiting senior research associate at Cambridge University and an honorary senior lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

• Chapter 1. Making Human Bodies Useful: Historicizing Medical Experiments in the Twentieth CenturyPart I: What Is a Human Experiment?Chapter 2. Using the Population Body to Protect the National Body: Germ Warfare Tests in the United Kingom after World War IIChapter 3. Whose Body? Which Disease? Studying Malaria while Treating NeurosyphilisPart II: Who Experiments?Chapter 4. Human Radiation Experiments and the Foundation of Medical Physics at the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley, 1937–1962Chapter 5. "I Have Been on Tenterhooks": Wartime Medical Research Council Jaundice Committee ExperimentsChapter 6. See an Atomic Blast and Spread the Word : Indoctrination at Ground ZeroPart III: Whose Body?Chapter 7. Injecting Comatose Patients with Uranium: America's Overlapping Wars Against Communism and Cancer in the 1950'sChapter 8. Writing Wilowbrook, Reading Willowbrook: The Recounting of a Medical Experiment

Offers worthwhile lessons for contemporary researchers, scholars, and policy makers . . . [and] makes a strong case for adopting a broad perspective in the analysis of research ethics . . . Besides gaining a rich picture of past scientific practices, readers will be better equipped to monitor the continuing search of 'useful bodies' in our own era.—Rebecca Dresser, Nature Medicine