Skin Theory – Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory Visperas Hardback

Skin TheoryVisual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory\nAuthor(s): Cristina Mejia Visperas\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479810772, 978-1479810772\nSynopsis\nHonorable Mention, Rachel Carson Prize, given by the Society for the Social Studies of Science\n Finalist, 2023 ASAP Book Award, given by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present\n Studies the intersections of incarceration, medical science, and race in postwar America\n In February 1966, a local newspaper described the medical science program at Holmesburg Prison, Philadelphia, a \""golden opportunity to conduct widespread medical tests under perfect control conditions.\"" Helmed by Albert M. Kligman, a University of Pennsylvania professor, these tests enrolled hundreds of the prison's predominantly Black population in studies determining the efficacy and safety of a wide variety of substances, from common household pro.