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Medical History in Special Collections

This LibGuide is built to encapsulate the wide reaches of medical history. It is intended to assist researchers and students with use of archives and print materials available at the University of Arkansas Libraries.

Medical Ethics

Experimentation With Human Subjects (1970)

Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison (2013)

Troubled Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernism, Medical Ethics, and the Body (1995)

Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans (2000)

White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine (2010)

The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics (2008)

The Torture Doctors: Human Rights Crimes and the Road to Justice (2020)

Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (1993)

The Experiment Must Continue: Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940-2014 (2015)

Nazi Medicine

Doctors Under Hitler (1989)

Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany: Origins, Practices, Legacies (2002)

Crying Hands: Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany (1999)

Recognizing the Past in the Present: New Studies on Medicine Before, During, and After the Holocaust (2021)

Racial Hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis (1988)

The Professionalization of Psychology in Nazi Germany (1992)

In Search of "Aryan Blood": Serology in Interwar and National Socialist Germany (2012)

Murderous Science: Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies, and others, Germany 1933-1945 (1988)

The Anatomy of Murder: Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich (2016)

The State of Health: Illness in Nazi Germany (2012)

Health, Race, and German Politics between National Unification and Nazism, 1870-1945 (1989)

The Murders at Bullenhuser Damm : The SS Doctor and the Children (1984)

Karl Brandt: The Nazi Doctor, Medicine, and Power in the Third Reich (2007)

Confronting the "Good Death": Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953 (2005)

The Historical Uncanny: Disability, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory (2014)

Brain Science under the Swastika: Ethical Violations, Resistance, and Victimization of Neuroscientists in Nazi Europe (2020)

Medicine and Race

Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry (2011)

Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation (2009)

Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America (2014)

Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America (2015)

Building the New Man: Eugenics, Racial Science and Genetics in Twentieth-Century Italy (2011)

On Race and Medicine: Insider Perspectives (2015)

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans (2006)

Bones in the Basement: Postmortem Racism in Nineteenth-Century Medical Training (1997)

Medicine and Slavery: the Diseases and Healthcare of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia (2002)

Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World 1780-1840 (2017)

Unhealthy Cities: Poverty, Race, and Place in America

Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire (2018)

Medicine and Gender

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