• Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison is a 1998 book by Allen Hornblum. The book documents clinical non-therapeutic medical experiments...
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    Peeling skin syndrome (also known as "acral peeling skin syndrome", "continual peeling skin syndrome", "familial continual skin peeling", "idiopathic...
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    Allen M. Hornblum (category Year of birth missing (living people))
    first book, Acres of Skin, published in 1998, detailed unethical human medical experiments at Holmesburg Prison. The publication of Acres of Skin attracted...
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    Attorney of Philadelphia documenting hundreds of cases of the rape of inmates. The 1998 book Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison, by Allen...
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    a medication used for the treatment of acne and acute promyelocytic leukemia. For acne, it is applied to the skin as a cream, gel or ointment. For acute...
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    An acral nevus is a cutaneous condition of the palms, soles, fingers, or toes (peripheral body parts), characterized by a skin lesion that is usually...
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    the skin in cells called melanocytes and it is the main determinant of the skin color of darker-skin humans. The skin color of people with light skin is...
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    Albert Kligman (category Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania alumni)
    widower from his second. He died of a heart attack in February, 2010, at age 93. He was survived by his third wife. Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg...
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    Unethical human experimentation in the United States (category History of medicine in the United States)
    me were acres of skin ... It was like a farmer seeing a fertile field for the first time." A 1964 issue of Medical News reported that 9 out of 10 prisoners...
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  • "Acres of skin: human experiments at Holmesburg Prison. A true story of abuse and exploitation in the name of medical science". Canadian Journal of History...
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    Sunflower Dead – (2011) Sylencer – A Lethal Dose of Truth (2012) "ACRES OF SKIN". ASCAP. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Retrieved...
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    March 08, 2017. Theresa Richardson. Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison (Review) Canadian Journal of History, April 1, 2001. "National...
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  • 24, 2001, by Roadrunner Records. It is a concept album and the final part of a trilogy that started with Demanufacture and continued with Obsolete. It...
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  • Humans, which covers some of the same ground as The Plutonium Files. Acres of Skin Experimentation on prisoners Ruth Faden Harold Hodge Plutopia Unethical...
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    17226/740. ISBN 978-0-309-07759-0. PMID 25032448. Hornblum AM (1999). Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison (1 ed.). Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-92336-1...
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    subjected to comedic treatment on the podcast The Dollop episode 290. Acres of Skin Wilhelm Fliess The Plutonium Files The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia...
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  • capable of exploiting those they regard as "other," and of finding ways to rationalize even the most atrocious abuse". The Plutonium Files Acres of Skin List...
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  • Green Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a rural country farm. The series was...
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    Many skin conditions affect the human integumentary system—the organ system covering the entire surface of the body and composed of skin, hair, nails...
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    Desquamation, or peeling skin, is the shedding of dead cells from the outermost layer of skin. The term is from Latin desquamare 'to scrape the scales...
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  • findings and various books including Acres of Skin by Allen Hornblum. The Stateville Penitentiary Malaria Study is one of many examples. The Plutonium Files...
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  • Hornblum, Allen M. (1998). Acres of skin: human experiments at Holmesburg Prison: a story of abuse and exploitation in the name of medical science. Routledge...
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    Hornblum explored the issue of consent in his book, Acres Of Skin, where he reported of strips of skin being flayed off the back of inmates that participated...
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    of sterilization abuse". Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 35 (3): 5–30. doi:10.1080/02773940509391314. S2CID 143325018. Hornblum AM (1998). Acres of Skin:...
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    Acral necrosis is a symptom common in bubonic plague. The striking black discoloration of skin and tissue, primarily on the extremities ("acral"), is...
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    Epidermolysis bullosa (EB) is a group of rare medical conditions that result in easy blistering of the skin and mucous membranes. Blisters occur with...
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  • Hellacious Acres review". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 2016-10-19. Elliott, Paul (February 2010). "Dangerous Toys - Dangerous Toys/Hellacious Acres"....
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  • corpses from local graveyards and fashioned keepsakes from their bones and skin. He also confessed to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954...
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