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''Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison'' is a 1998 book by
Allen Hornblum Allen M. Hornblum is an author, journalist and a former criminal justice official and political organizer based in Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, largest city ...
. The book documents clinical non-therapeutic medical experiments on prison inmates at
Holmesburg Prison Holmesburg Prison, given the nickname "The Terrordome," was a prison operated by the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Prison System, Pennsylvania Department of Prisons (PDP) from 1896 to 1995. The facility is located at 8 ...
in Philadelphia from 1951 to 1974, conducted under the direction of
dermatologist Dermatology is the branch of medicine dealing with the skin.''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.'' Random House, Inc. 2001. Page 537. . It is a speciality with both medical and surgical aspects. A dermatologist is a specialist medical ...
Albert Kligman. The title of the book is a reference to Kligman's reaction on seeing hundreds of prisoners when he entered the prison: "All I saw before me were acres of skin" ... "It was like a farmer seeing a fertile field for the first time". The book discusses issues surrounding the inadequate consent procedures of the 1950s and 1960s when using prisoners. Prisoners, attracted by the compensation, were angry when two of the experiment's participants testified before Congress. The publication of ''Acres of Skin'' in 1998 attracted considerable international media interest. The book has been reviewed in several journals including the ''International Journal of Dermatology'', ''Social History of Medicine'' and ''Canadian Journal of History''.Theresa Richardson
Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison (Review)
''Canadian Journal of History'', April 1, 2001.


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