ABSTRACT
At a time of increased interest and renewed shock over the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, Acres of Skin sheds light on yet another dark episode of American medical history. In this disturbing expose, Allen M. Hornblum tells the story of Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|71 pages
The Subjects, the Doctors, and the Experiments
part Two|44 pages
Twentieth-Century American Penal Experimentation
part Three|68 pages
Cruel and Unusual Experiments
part Four|60 pages
The End of Experimentation at Holmesburg
