Mustard Gas and American Race-Based Human Experimentation in World War II

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 36 (3):517-521 (2008)
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This essay examines the risks of racialized science as revealed in the American mustard gas experiments of World War II. In a climate of contested beliefs over the existence and meanings of racial differences, medical researchers examined the bodies of Japanese American, African American, and Puerto Rican soldiers for evidence of how they differed from whites

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