Library Research Guide for the History of Public Health

Subject Terms

Subjects

• Human experimentation in medicine
• Prisoners -- Medical care -- Moral and ethical aspects

Med. subject (MeSH)

• Holmesburg Prison.
• Prisons
• Human Experimentation

Bibliographies

Medical experimentation on prisoners: an introductory bibliography on a neglected research topic, by Dretha M. Phillips. Monticello, Ill. : Vance Bibliographies, 1979, 8 p.
HOLLIS Record

American prisons: an annotated bibliography, by Elizabeth Huffmaster McConnell and Laura J. Moriarty. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998, 321 p.
HOLLIS Record

Document Collections

Documents on the origin and development of the Tuskegee syphilis study

Tuskegee Syphilis Study Administrative Records. Includes photographs and records from the larger archival collection at the National Archives in Atlanta

Medical Experiments Perpetrated on Black Americans (Univ. of Missouri guide)

Statistics

Race of prisoners admitted to state and federal institutions, 1926-1986, by Patrick A. Langan. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1991, 54 p.
HOLLIS Record

More in formation in Library Research Guide for HISTSCI 148VJ: Race, Medicine, and Mass Incarceration. This is an old guide, and there will be some dead links.