Fascinating experiments and studies
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As Nature Made Him
by John Colapinto
In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment that would alter his gender. The case would become one of the most famous in modern medicine -- and a total failure. As Nature Made Him tells the extraordinary story of David Reimer, who, when finally informed of his medical history, made the decision to live as a male. A macabre tale of medical arrogance, it is first and foremost a human drama of one man's -- and one family's -- amazing survival in the face of terrible odds.
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The Normals
by David Gilbert
Finding himself without prospects, trapped in a series of dead-end temp jobs and failed relationships, and faced with a collection agency's threats concerning some unpaid bills, Billy Schine accepts the opportunity to take part in a pharmaceutical company's tests of their new experimental drugs, but he soon discovers the drug's nasty side effects. A first novel. Reprint.
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Acres of Skin
by Allen M. Hornblum
Publisher Fact Sheet Shatters the silence on the medical experiments that were conducted on the inmates of Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison from the 1950s to the mid-1970s.
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Black Like Me
by John Howard Griffin
THE HISTORY-MAKING CLASSIC ABOUT CROSSING THE COLOR LINE IN AMERICA'S SEGREGATED SOUTH “One of the deepest, most penetrating documents yet set down on the racial question.”—Atlanta Journal & Constitution In the Deep South of the 1950’s, a color line was etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross that line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man. What happened to John Howard Griffin—from the outside and within himself—as he made his way through the segregated Deep South is recorded in this searing work of nonfiction. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity every American must read.
