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04565aam a2200601 i 4500 001 E2BC18609A4E11EE9D2109AF26ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231214010155 008 210916s2022 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021044596 020 $a 1479810789 020 $a 9781479810789 020 $a 1479810770 020 $a 9781479810772 035 $a (OCoLC)1268545515 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d TOH $d CDX $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 00 $a R853.H8 $b M454 2022 082 00 $a 616.02/7 $2 23 100 1 $a Mejia Visperas, Cristina, $e author. 245 10 $a Skin theory : $b visual culture and the postwar prison laboratory / $c Cristina Mejia Visperas. 264 1 $a New York : $b New York University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a x, 243 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-227) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Science in Captivity -- The Skin Apparatus: Seeing Difference -- Skin Problems: Seeing Pain -- The Skin of Architecture -- Bioethics and the Skin of Words -- Coda: War Wounds. 520 $a "During the postwar period, experiments on prison populations were standard practice among many universities, public health agencies, and major pharmaceutical manufacturers across the United States. Thus, the operative question in Skin Theory is: What was it about the US prison that made it so amenable to medical science research? A visual study for critically understanding entwined sites of imprisonment and scientific knowledge production, Skin Theory speaks directly to the crucial moments immediately before two large American industries, one carceral and the other pharmaceutical, saw their fantastic rise and dominance, honing in on when their interests and operations came together in explicit ways. It revisits the notorious dermatological experiments conducted between 1952 and 1974 at Holmesburg Prison, Philadelphia, analyzing skin in its technological, spatial, and discursive dimensions to illustrate a profound antagonism between knowledge and freedom made visible through the body of the captive test subject, a racialized subject whose boundless availability to scientific and cultural representation complicates the very notion of skin. This study offers an important reframing of critical approaches to race in histories of science, medicine, and technology, redefining science as already a fundamentally racial project. A visual analysis of how medical science and incarceration together formed a race-making technology and geography reconfiguring the nation's long history of captivity, from slavery to mass incarceration, Skin Theory shifts from issues of scientific racism to the scientific rationality of racism itself"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Human experimentation in medicine $z Philadelphia $z Philadelphia $x History $y 20th century. 610 20 $a Holmesburg Prison. 650 0 $a Prisoners $x History $z Philadelphia $z Philadelphia $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Dermatology $x History $z Philadelphia $z Philadelphia $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Racism in criminal justice administration $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Racism in medicine $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 6 $a ExpeÌrimentation humaine en meÌdecine $z Philadelphie $z Philadelphie $x Histoire $y 20e sieÌcle. 650 6 $a Dermatologie $x Histoire $z Philadelphie $z Philadelphie $x Histoire $y 20e sieÌcle. 650 6 $a Racisme dans l'administration de la justice peÌnale $x Histoire $y 20e sieÌcle. 650 6 $a Racisme en meÌdecine $x Histoire $y 20e sieÌcle. 650 7 $a MEDICAL / General. $2 bisacsh 610 27 $a Holmesburg Prison. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00732607 650 7 $a Dermatology $x Research. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00891066 650 7 $a Human experimentation in medicine. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00963042 650 7 $a Prisoners $x Health and hygiene. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01077147 650 7 $a Racism in criminal justice administration. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst02025479 650 7 $a Racism in medicine. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01744790 651 7 $a Pennsylvania $z Philadelphia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204170 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a History. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214015822.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E2BC18609A4E11EE9D2109AF26ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b IOWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search