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|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan
|date=July 2013
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230341713 </amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>0230341713 </amazonus>
|website=http://www.hornblum.com/
|video=G5A3JKS3L3w
|summary=''Against Their Will'' is a horrific story of human experimentation in the USA. It would be easy to write this off as irrelevant to British readers, but these experiments do have far reaching implications that are still very relevant here and now.
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If I told you that doctors had been using human beings in the most horrible of medical experiments, that they had done things like tie toddlers to beds to insert live pathogens into their eyes, injected children with radiation, sterilised those thought to be subhuman and even castrated a child just to get a supply of tissue for a lab experiment, you might very reasonably assume I am talking abut Nazi Germany. I am not.
''Against Their Will'' chronicles America's use of unwilling participants in medical experimentation. It is easy to believe these claims are exaggerated, or even false, so before reviewing this book I spent a lot of time online researching the authors' claims. As far as I can see, the book has erred on the side of caution, failing to mention some of the most horrific cases and sticking to what can be proved. If anything, I feel this book only touches the tip of the iceberg. The authors of this book have resisted any urge to sensationalise. I'm very grateful that we are not given the most graphic details. Instead they give us enough information to know what has happened rather than blow by blow accounts of the horrific suffering involved. But it doesn't take much to imagine what these people suffered. This book is deeply disturbing, but is something that must be read.
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