human experimentation in medicine

In 1919, four-year-old Rachel Rabinowitz is placed in the Hebrew Infant Home where Dr. Mildred Solomon is conducting medical research on the children. Dr. Solomon subjects Rachel to an experimental course of X-ray treatments that establish the doctor's reputation while risking the little girl's health. Now it's 1954, and Rachel is a nurse in the hospice wing of the Old Hebrews Home when elderly Dr. Solomon becomes her patient. Realizing the power she holds over the helpless doctor, Rachel embarks on a dangerous experiment of her own design. Before the night shift ends, Rachel will be forced to choose between forgiveness and revenge.

Recounts the true stories of ten scientists and medical researchers that have endured extreme hardship and discomfort in order to test new discoveries and inventions in the fields of medicine and science.

In this combination of two separately published works, J.D. discovers that he is the son of Frankenstein's monster, and armed with the Doctor's journal he sets out to find his "relatives"--the descendents and relations of the people whose body parts Doctor Frankenstein used.

Examines the experiences of the children and husband of Henrietta Lacks, who, twenty years after her death from cervical cancer in 1951, learned doctors and researchers took cells from her cervix without consent which were used to create the immortal cell line known as the HeLa cell; provides an overview of Henrietta's life; and explores issues of experimentation on African-Americans and bioethics.

Examines arguments on both sides of the debate over medical testing, with essays discussing the paying of humans for research, using animals as test subjects, whether or not women should receive screening mammograms starting at the age of forty, and more.

Explores how the ethical limits governing the use of the human body in experimentation have been breached and redefined throughout history in the name of medical advancement.

Searching in Los Angeles for the descendant of the man whose right eye was used to create his dad, J.D. discovers that the man, Sam Hammer, is a detective on the trail of a werewolf, and finds himself arrested at the request of Frankenstein's daughter.

On the day the orphanage where he has grown up closes, J.D. discovers that he is the son of Frankenstein's monster, so he sets out to find the people that all the mismatched parts that he inherited came from, and do it before Frankenstein's creepy daughter, who wants to outdo her father, can find them.

A man-made apocalypse threatens mankind. Three strangers navigate the chaos: an expectant mother, a teenage girl, and an armed loner. One hundred years later, their survival leads to a battle to vanquish the Twelve, a dozen humans transformed by an ancient virus into a terrifying threat that will bring what is left of the human race to what survivors think will be the brink of annihilation. But the enemy has evolved with a new plan more horrifying than man's extinction. To bring the Twelve down, one of humanity's heroes will have to pay the ultimate price.