The Whistle-Blower
the story of one man's battle against the medical establishment
$60.07
- Hardcover
196 pages
- Release Date
29 September 2017
Summary
“No doctor, however great his capacity or original his ideas, has the right to choose martyrs for science or for the general good.” Human Guinea Pigs: Experimentation on Man.
Whistle-blowers tend not to be very popular. Maurice Pappworth’s whistle was in the form of Human Guinea Pigs, the controversial book published in 1967 which examined unethical medical experimentation on humans and identified the researchers and institutions responsible. The ground-breaking text took the medical establ…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781908684974 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1908684976 |
| Author: | Joanna Seldon |
| Publisher: | Legend Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | The University of Buckingham Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 196 |
| Release Date: | 29 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 588g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 160mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Joanna Seldon
The late Dr Joanna Seldon was Maurice Pappworth’s daughter. She graduated from Oxford in 1976 with the top first for her subject in her year. She was an independent teacher and writer and published a number of short stories and poems. Her novels include Still Crazy (2013), Squared (2014), Piper’s Hole (2014) and Waterloo to Wellington: From Iron Duke to Enlightened College (2015).
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