Germanna Community Conversation with Allen Hornblum: Acres of Skin: Prisoners as “lab rats”
Date and Time
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT
September 28 • 12 p.m.
Location
Virtual & In-person – Workforce Building (SP2), Sealy Auditorium
Fees/Admission
Registration Required
Contact Information
Scott Ackerman
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Description
Germanna Community Conversation with speaker Allen Hornblum:
Acres of Skin: Prisoners as “lab rats”
September 28 • 12 p.m.
Virtual & In-person – Workforce Building (SP2), Sealy Auditorium
germanna.edu/conversations
Join us in conversation with bioethicist and author Allen M. Hornblum and Germanna student, Adrianne Jones-Alston. Jones-Alston’s father, Leodus Jones, was the subject of Hornblum’s book “Sentenced to Science,” which chronicles the experience and aftermath of his treatment at Holmesburg prison. The Philadelphia prison, closed in 1995, was nicknamed “The Terrordome” and was the site of inmate testing involving dermatological, pharmaceutical, and weapons research projects. Prisoners were unknowingly exposed to everything from dioxin to LSD.
