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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- NON FICTION
- Features
- Hardcover
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Original/Facsimile
- Original
- Year Printed
- 2006
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- ISBN
- 9780743270304
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Free Press
ISBN-10
0743270304
ISBN-13
9780743270304
eBay Product ID (ePID)
48251333
Product Key Features
Book Title
Great Starvation Experiment : the Heroic Men Who Starved So That Millions Could Live
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Military / World War II, Peace, General, History
Publication Year
2006
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Medical, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
18.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-278255
Reviews
"Not only has Todd Tucker uncovered an extraordinary and virtually unknown story from World War II, he has told it in a masterful way.The Great Starvation Experimentis absolutely first-rate."-- Andrew Carroll, editor of the national bestsellingWar LettersandBehind the Lines, "The Great Starvation Experimentis a gracefully written account of one of the most inspiring stories of moral and political courage to emerge from the Second World War. Tucker explores questions about the nature of heroism and sacrifice that are particularly provocative and relevant now, when Americans are again waging war and facing difficult moral choices."-- Thurston Clarke, author ofAsk Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America, "Not only has Todd Tucker uncovered an extraordinary and virtually unknown story from World War II, he has told it in a masterful way. The Great Starvation Experiment is absolutely first-rate." -- Andrew Carroll, editor of the national bestselling War Letters and Behind the Lines, "Courage comes in many vessels. This captivating book recalls a team of conscientious objectors who wouldn't fight -- but they would starve in the service of humanity. Part science, part philosophy, and pure human drama." -- David Von Drehle, author of Triangle, "The Great Starvation Experiment is a gracefully written account of one of the most inspiring stories of moral and political courage to emerge from the Second World War. Tucker explores questions about the nature of heroism and sacrifice that are particularly provocative and relevant now, when Americans are again waging war and facing difficult moral choices." -- Thurston Clarke, author of Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America, "Courage comes in many vessels. This captivating book recalls a team of conscientious objectors who wouldn't fight -- but they would starve in the service of humanity. Part science, part philosophy, and pure human drama."-- David Von Drehle, author ofTriangle
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
174.2/8
Table Of Content
ContentsPrologue: Starved into SubmissionOne: High Altitude StudiesTwo: Work of National ImportanceThree: The Cornelius Rhoads AwardFour: ControlFive: Crucifying the FleshSix: The Stigmata of StarvationSeven: Restricted RehabilitationEight: The Helsinki DeclarationNine: The Cover of TimeTen: Unrestricted RehabilitationAcknowledgmentsNotesSourcesIndex
Synopsis
What does it feel like to starve? To feel your body cry out for nourishment, to think only of food? How many fitful, hungry nights must pass before dreams of home-cooked meals metastasize into nightmares of cannibalism? Why would anyone volunteer to find out? In The Great Starvation Experiment, historian Todd Tucker tells the harrowing story of thirty-six young men who willingly and bravely faced down profound, consuming hunger. As conscientious objectors during World War II, these men were eager to help in the war effort but restricted from combat by their pacifist beliefs. So, instead, they volunteered to become guinea pigs in one of the most unusual experiments in medical history -- one that required a year of systematic starvation. Dr. Ancel Keys was already famous for inventing the K ration when the War Department asked for his help with feeding the starving citizens of Europe and the Far East at the war's end. Fascists and Communists, it was feared, could gain a foothold in war-ravaged areas. "Starved people," Keys liked to say, "can't be taught Democracy." The government needed to know the best way to rehabilitate those people who had been severely underfed during the long war. To study rehabilitation, Keys first needed to create a pool of starving test subjects. Gathered in a cutting-edge lab underneath the football stadium at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Keys' test subjects forsook most food and were monitored constantly so that Dr. Keys and his scientists could study the effects of starvation on otherwise healthy people. While the weight loss of the men followed a neat mathematical curve, the psychological deterioration was less predictable. Some men drank quarts and quarts of water to fill their empty stomachs. One man chewed as many as forty packs of gum a day. One man mutilated himself to escape the experiment. Ultimately only four of the men were expelled from the experiment for cheating -- a testament to the volunteers' determination and toughness. To prevent atrocities of the kind committed by the Nazi doctors, international law now prevents this kind of experimentation on healthy people. But in this remarkable book, Todd Tucker captures a lost sliver of American history -- a time when cold scientific principles collided with living, breathing human beings. Tucker depicts the agony and endurance of a group of extraordinary men whose lives were altered not only for the year they participated in the experiment, but forever.
LC Classification Number
RC627.S7T83 2006
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