Uses of Humans in Experiment

Erika Dyck is Professor and Canada Research Chair in the History of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the author of Psychedelic Psychiatry (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) and Facing Eugenics (University of Toronto Press, 2013).Larry Stewart is Professor of History at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He is currently writing a study of experiment during the Enlightenment and the first industrial revolution. He has recently edited, with Bernie Lightman and Gordon McOuat, Circulating Knowledge, East and West (Brill, 2013), and is currently completing, with Trevor Levere and Hugh Torrens, The Democratic Vision of Thomas Beddoes; Science, Medicine and Reform.

• 1 The Hermphrodite of Charing Cross2 Galvanic HumansRob Iliffe3 The Subject as Instrument: Galvanic Experiments, Organic Apparatus and Problems of CalibrationJoan Steigerwald4 Shocking Subjects: Human Experiments and the Material Culture of Medical Electricity in Eighteenth-Century EnglandPaola Bertucci5 Pneumatic Chemistry, Self-Experimentation and the Burden of Revolution, 1780–1805Larry Stewart6 Food Fights: Human Experiments in Late Nineteenth-Century Nutrition PhysiologyElizabeth Neswald7 Experimenting with Radium Therapy: In the Laboratory & the ClinicKatherine Zwicker8 Anthropometry, Race, and Eugenic Research: “Measurements of Growing Negro Children”Paul A. Lombardo9 Nazi Human Experiments: The Victims’ Perspective and the Post-Second World War DiscoursePaul Weindling10 A Eugenics Experiment: Sterilization, Hyperactivity and DegenerationErika Dyck

"The Uses of Human Experiment is a collection of what individually are very interesting and useful essays that cover little-studied episodes in the history of human subject research."Piers J. Hale (University of Oklahoma), in Metascience (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-019-00398-x. '[...] from colorful tales on exploring the bodies of 18th-century hermaphrodites and the follies of self-experimentation by people of the stature of Alexander von Humboldt to well-intentioned nutritional experiments with prisoners, the risks and promises of radium, race and eugenics, and the horrors of the Nazis' coerced research. The essays keep readers interested and intrigued and provoke reflection on the status of humans as subjects for experimentation. This volume will be useful to scholars who have worked or are currently working on the history and ethics of research on humans and need to further illustrate or enhance their work with the addition of historical facts or colorful notes.'- P. Rodriguez del Pozo (Weill Cornell Medical College), in: CHOICE, November 2016 Vol. 54 No. 3