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Allen M. Hornblum

Allen M. Hornblum is the author of eight books, including Acres of Skin, Sentenced to Science, and Against Their Will (with Judy Newman and Greg Dober) concerning the history of using vulnerable populations as subjects for medical research. His latest book, The Klondike Bake-Oven Deaths, will be published in February 2021.

  • Participants in the Tuskegee study in Tuskegee, Alabama
    Participants in the Tuskegee study in Tuskegee, Alabama
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    The Jewish VD Detective Who Exposed the Infamous Tuskegee Experiment

    Black History Month: How whistleblower Peter Buxtun came to recognize a great injustice, and act on it

    byAllen M. Hornblum
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    Holmesburg Prison.
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    How Black Prison Inmates in Philadelphia Were Turned Into Human Guinea Pigs: A Memoir

    Tuskegee was hardly the last time American medical researchers used men in unethical experiments

    byAllen M. Hornblum
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