human experimentation in medicine

Giselle and Ingrid are the twin daughters of Doctor Victor Frankenstein, but they are very different people, and when they inherit his castle in the Orkney Islands, Giselle dreams of holding parties and inviting society--but Ingrid is fascinated by her father's forbidden experiments.

Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Jewish doctor imprisoned at Auschwitz, tells of his experiences serving under Josef Mengele, during which he was forced to perform experiments and autopsies on fellow inmates and treated the Sonderkommando, Jewish prisoners who were routinely executed after four months of forced labor in the crematoria.

Six genetically engineered bird-children struggle to stay with the couple who saved them from their captors while one scientist hunts for the oldest girl, Max, who knows too much about his new, even more portentous project.

Examines the forty-year study by the federal government in the treatment of syphilis in African-American males conducted at the Tuskegee Institute that eventually killed many of the four hundred infected men.

In a near-future world where technologically enhanced humans are governed by a strict set of conduct laws, twenty-nine-year-old Owen Gray joins the ranks of a persecuted underclass that is planning to change, or destroy, the world.

Discusses scientists throughout history who have performed dangerous experiments on themselves for the benefit of humankind, including a zoologist who ate slug soup and a Nobel Prize-winning surgeon who put a catheter into his own heart.

Chronicles the events surrounding the World War II experiment involving thirty-six conscientious objectors who volunteered to undergo a controlled starvation in an effort to understand how best to help feed the starving European population after the war.

An expose of the fifty-year cover-up surrounding the experiments conducted by Manhattan Project medical doctors on eighteen unsuspecting patients who were secretly injected with plutonium; with information about additional experiments American citizens were subjected to during the postwar years without their knowledge.

Presents a comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African-Americans from colonial times to the present; describing unauthorized medical treatments and autopsies as well as mistreatment under the guise of medical research.