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Title: Guinea-Pig Doctors: The Drama of Medical Research Through Self-Experimentation by Jon Franklin, John Sutherland ISBN: 0-688-02666-4 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: March, 1984 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $17.95

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Summary: Self-experimentation by doctors...
Comment: This book is written by two men, one a doctor and the other a jouralist. Some people will find this a fun read, but it is written almost in the format of a novel rather than a history or biography. I think the authors felt the need to make the lives that these men lived and the curiosity and honor with which they chose to do their research needed to be expanded and told in ornate narrative, rather than telling the simple truth. When history is told in such a manner, and the authors tell things that they have no proof of happening (they are merely surmising) the story becomes a story. It is not history. The story of self-experimentation is filled with foolishness, courage, and concern for patients. It does not need to be enhanced by suppositions.

A much better and more recent book on this history of medical research is by Lawrence Altman. That book should be read prior to reading this one, which is unsatifactory in the historical sense.

Karen Sadler, Science Education, University of Pittsburgh