Contested Medicine : Cancer Research and the Military - Gerald Kutcher

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Contested Medicine

Cancer Research and the Military

By: Gerald Kutcher

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Hardcover | 1 May 2009 | Edition Number 1

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In the 1960s University of Cincinnati radiologist Eugene Saenger infamously conducted human experiments on patients with advanced cancer to examine how total body radiation could treat the disease. But, under contract with the Department of Defense, Saenger also used those same patients as proxies for soldiers to answer questions about combat effectiveness on a nuclear battlefield. Using the Saenger case as a means to reconsider cold war medical trials, "Contested Medicine" examines the inherent tensions at the heart of clinical studies of the time. Emphasizing the deeply intertwined and mutually supportive relationship between cancer therapy with radiation and military medicine, Gerald Kutcher explores post-World War II cancer trials, the efforts of the government to manage clinical ethics, and the important role of military investigations in the development of an effective treatment for childhood leukemia. Whereas most histories of human experimentation judge research such as Saenger's against idealized practices, "Contested Medicine "eschews such an approach and considers why Saenger's peers and later critics had so much difficulty reaching an unambiguous ethical assessment. Kutcher's engaging investigation offers an approach to clinical ethics and research imperatives that lays bare many of the conflicts and tensions of the postwar period.

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"What is truly original about Contested Medicine is that, by using the science studies approach applied to a specific historical case, Kutcher shows not only how ethics were constitutive of the shape of experimental work on cancer at its inception but how both of these things were mutually changed over time." - Christopher Lawrence, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London"

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Research Imperatives and Clinical Ethics
Cancer Clinical Trials	p. 23
The Production of Trustworthy Knowledge	p. 44
Military Medicine and Cancer Therapy	p. 70
A Case of Contested Knowledge
Cancer Patients as Proxy Soldiers	p. 97
A Cancer Patient's Story	p. 117
Peer Review	p. 136
Public Disclosure	p. 160
Attempts at Closure
Ethical Judgment	p. 193
Epilogue	p. 215
Bibliography	p. 221
Index	p. 235
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