Seattle presentation on use of prisoners in medical experiments

Prison Guinea Pigs

Allen M. Hornblum, author of Acres of Skin and Sentenced To Science will be addressing the Western IRB’s 24^th Annual Training Seminar on Friday, September 12, 2008 at Seattle’s Bell Harbor Conference Center.

Hornblum’s books illuminate the sad history of the use of prison inmates as test subjects for the American medical community and Holmesburg Prison’s (Philadelphia) long history of incorporating inmates in a quarter-century of experimentation including; radioactive isotopes, chemical warfare agents, and dioxin studies.

Edward “Yusef” Anthony will be joining Hornblum in the presentation. Anthony is the subject of Sentenced To Science and will provide a first hand account of what it was like to be repeatedly used as an incarcerated test subject during the Cold War.

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