The Treatment: The Story of Those Who Died in the Cincinnati Radiation Tests PDF

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The Treatment is the story of one tragedy of medical research that stretched over eleven years and affected the lives of hundreds of people in an Ohio city. Thirty years ago the author, then an assistant professor of English, acquired a large set of little-known medical papers at her university. These documents told a grotesque story. Cancer patients coming to the public hospital on her campus were being swept into secret experiments for the U.S. military; they were being irradiated over their whole bodies as if they were soldiers in nuclear war. Of the ninety women and men exposed to this treatment, twenty-one died within a month of their radiations.
Martha Stephens’s report on these deaths led to the halting of the tests, but local papers did not print her charges, and for many years people in Cincinnati had no way of knowing that lethal experiments had taken place there. In 1994 other military tests were brought to light, and a yellowed copy of Stephens’s original report was delivered to a television newsroom. In Ohio, major publicity ensued—at long last—and reached around the world. Stephens uncovered the names of the victims, and a legal action was filed against thirteen researchers and their institutions. A federal judge compared the deeds of the doctors to the medical crimes of the Nazis during World War II and refused to dismiss the researchers from the suit. After many bitter disputes in court, they agreed to settle the case with the families of those they had afflicted. In 1999 a memorial plaque was raised in a yard of the hospital.
Who were these doctors and why had they done as they did? Who were the people whose lives they took? Who was the reporter who could not forget the story, the young attorney who first developed the case, the judge who issued the historic ruling against the doctors? This is Stephens’s moving account of all that transpired in these lives and her own during this epic battle between medicine and human rights.

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• File Size: 1155 KB
• Print Length: 373 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0822328119
• Publisher: Duke University Press Books; 1 edition (January 2, 2002)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00EFVLJJG
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The Treatment: The Story of Those Who Died in the Cincinnati Radiation Tests PDF

The Treatment tells the story of a horrifying miscarriage of medical research in the sixties. At least ninety-nine individuals were affected. They were irradiated over their whole bodies, or sometimes half their bodies, in a huge Cobalt-60 machine in the basement of Cincinnati General Hospital, and twenty-one died within about a month of being exposed. They were patients coming to a hospital cancer clinic when they were swept into this study funded by the Department of Defense. They and their families thought they were being treated for their disease, but University of Cincinnati doctors working with the military were trying to find out what would happen to soldiers in nuclear war.
Part One of this book outlines the long struggle of Stephens and her associates to bring this project to light. In 1994 she was able to uncover, with the help of a student at the university, the full names of the subjects and to initiate a lawsuit. Part Two provides the medical facts of the research over eleven years and how it affected each victim -- and in particular a group of surviving families the writer came to know well. Part Three describes each stage of the five years of litigation in federal court, which ended in 1999 in a settlement by the doctors of five million dollars.
Stephens writes that she had come to think of the people of this drama as "an invisible army that fought by night," unaware, that is, of what was happening to them and the military role they were performing.
This book seems to be widely read and to have had many good reviews. I notice that The Journal of American History considers it "a comprehensive and powerful account of one of the most important radiation experiments performed on unsuspecting civilians in post-World War II America."

By retired professor

Truth-dedicated & well documented, this book by Prof. Stephens reveals medical experimentation cover-ups previously unknown to me. "Settled" finally in 1999, this case deserves "best seller" status along with classics such as
"Lies My Teacher Told Me..."(-Loewen). I try to tell everyone I know about these ageless icon-breakers.

By Gene B