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Guinea Pig Zero: An Anthology of the Journal for Human Research Subjects
ISBN
9781891053283
Publication Date
February 8, 2005
Editor
Robert Helms
Pages
260
Subjects
human experimentation; medical ethics; clinical trials; human subjects research; informed consent; biomedical research; medical exploitation; human guinea pigs; lab rats; test subjects; medical testing; drug trials; sleep deprivation studies; military medical experiments; Gulf War syndrome; medical activism; research ethics; vulnerable populations; precarious labor; body commodification; medical resistance; subject rights; history of medicine; medical abuses; Tuskegee experiment; 1935 test subject strike; scientific misconduct; research scandals; underground zine; alternative press; first-person narratives; oral history; medical memoir; activist journalism; countercultural publishing
Price
14.95
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Guinea Pig Zero presents the first anthology drawn from the pioneering underground zine of the same name, which began documenting the hidden world of human medical experimentation in 1996. Editor Robert Helms, a veteran "lab rat" himself writing under the pseudonym Guinea Pig Zero, brings together dozens of essays and firsthand accounts from the zine's pages that reveal this dark corner of science from the test subjects' own perspective.
Through gripping personal narratives—from a volunteer who lost his mind in a sleep deprivation study to Gulf War soldiers unknowingly exposed to experimental toxins—this eye-opening anthology reveals what it's really like to trade your body for rent money in the name of science. Including historical accounts of subject resistance like the forgotten 1935 test subject strike, these underground dispatches from the zine expose the disturbing reality behind clinical trial consent forms and the dark underbelly of medical research.
A vital resource for bioethicists, medical historians, and general readers alike, this essential anthology will forever change how you think about scientific progress and the human cost of medical advancement.