Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America (Hardcover) by Allen M. Hornblum, Judith Lynn Newman, Gregory J. Dober

from TLCrawford

"Against their will: The secret history of medical experimentation on children in cold war America" has been a difficult book for me to review. Written by three physicians, Allen Hornblum, Judith Newman, and Gregory Dober, the book discuss' many of the ethical failures physicians have made using ...

from lucas20

I struggled with this book mightily. While the topic and content are interesting in a mystifyingly bizarre way, it often suffered from choppy anecdotes, incomplete information, and repetitive prose. This is a book that needed to be written, without a doubt. Cataloging the series of abuses imposed...

from mabith

There's a lot of really interesting information in this book, and it's a history that should be more well known. The writing in general is good, but the organization is bad and the writing is sometimes repetitive. Each experiment is also covered quite briefly, so be prepared to look for other boo...

from octafoil40

This book tries to emulate other books on wrongful medical experimentation on the human species --- children in this case. The book is well footnoted. But the subject cannot be adequately covered in a mere 219 pages. A structure such as the 480 page book by Eileen Welsome's "Plutonium Files" (a 4...

from schwager

This is a work that, at times, is very difficult to read. The many examples that the authors give of instances of experiments being performed on children are astounding. What most struck me as I was reading was that findings and advances that were the results of these studies still impact all Ame...