Book ID: CBB000101684

Perversion of Knowledge: The True Story of Soviet Science (2001)

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Birstein, Vadim J. (Author)


Westview Press
Publication date: 2001
Language: English


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: xx + 492 pp., illus., bibl., index

Description Discusses biomedical experimentation on human subjects.


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Review Pratt, Joan Klobe (2002) Review of "Perversion of Knowledge: The True Story of Soviet Science". Quarterly Review of Biology (p. 310). unapi

Review Chilvers, C. A. J. (2004) Review of "Perversion of Knowledge: The True Story of Soviet Science". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 229). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Anderson, Julie
Ash, Mitchell G.
Bertolaso, Marta
Cambrosio, Alberto
Carson, Cathryn L.
DiMoia, John P.
Journals
Journal of Cold War Studies
Science Technology and Society
Social Studies of Science
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
University of California, Berkeley
Brandes & Apsel
Cornell University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California
Concepts
Science and government
Biomedical technology
Science and politics
Medicine
Human experimentation
Communism
People
Haeckel, Ernst
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Stalin, Joseph
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
Places
Soviet Union
United States
Russia
Germany
Brazil
Italy
Institutions
Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft
National Institute of Health (U.S.)
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