Laura Stark — The Normals: A People's History of Modern America in Five Human Experiments - with Christine Grady — at Conn Ave

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How healthy control subjects in clinical research transformed the practice and labor of science, as told by the Normals themselves. In the 1950s, the National Institutes of Health were in search of a large, replenishing stream of healthy people to participate in clinical studies. To establish legal sources of test subjects, the NIH signed unprecedented contracts with American colleges, church organizations, and other government agencies, and in the process gave rise to a new type of test subject: the "normal patient." Thousands of them eventually moved into the NIH Clinical Center to live in hospital rooms, eat food prepared in a metabolic kitchen, and follow—or flout—the rules. The Normals https://politics prose.com/book/9780226855240 is a groundbreaking account of th…

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