Sentenced to Science: One Black Man's Story of Imprisonment in America
Author:   Allen M. Hornblum (Temple University) ,  Harriet Washington
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
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9780271058757


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   15 February 2013
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Allen M. Hornblum (Temple University) ,  Harriet Washington
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780271058757


ISBN 10:   0271058757
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   15 February 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Contents Acknowledgments 1. “My Back Is on Fire” 2. “The Jungle” 3. “Bubble-Eyed Butch” 4. “Don’t Serve Time; Let Time Serve You” 5. “He’s Got a Body Like Marilyn Monroe” 6. “They Called Me Outer Limits” 7. “Fruit Up” 8. “He Still Has the Cork in His Ass!” 9. “Those Doctors Ain’t Interested in You” 10. “I Tried My Best” 11. “I Was in Some Deep Shit Now” 12. “My Spiritual Awakening” 13. “It Was a Jihad” 14. “Feeling Death Blow Past My Face” 15. “A Righteous Life” 16. “Trying to Get a Little Justice” Epilogue Notes Index

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[Allen Hornblum's] reliance on Edward Anthony's first-person account of suffering as a test subject while incarcerated in Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison makes for a compelling, dramatic narrative. --Lauren Williams, Columbia Daily Tribune


[Allen Hornblum's] reliance on Edward Anthony's first-person account of suffering as a test subject while incarcerated in Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison makes for a compelling, dramatic narrative. Lauren Williams, Columbia Daily Tribune


[Allen Hornblum's] reliance on Edward Anthony's first-person account of suffering as a test subject while incarcerated in Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison makes for a compelling, dramatic narrative. Lauren Williams, Columbia Daily Tribune


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Allen M. Hornblum is Lecturer of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University. He is the author of Confessions of a Second Story Man: Junior Kripplebauer and the K&A Gang (2005) and Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison: A True Story of Abuse and Exploitation in the Name of Medical Science (1998).

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