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**Studies the intersections of incarceration, medical science, and race in postwar America** 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 products to chemical warfare agents. These experiments at Holmesburg were hardly unique; in the postwar United States, the use of incarcerated test subjects was standard practice among many research institutions and pharmaceutical companies. __Skin Theory__ examines the prison as this space for scientific knowledge production, showing how the “perfect control conditions” of the prison dovetailed into the visual regimes of laboratory work. To that end, __Skin Theory__ offers an important reframing of visual approaches to race in histories of science, medicine, and technology, shifting from issues of scientific racsm to the scientific rationality of

Who reads Skin Theory : Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory?

Author

Cristina Mejia Visperas

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781479810789

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Medical