The Treatment: The Story of Those Who Died in the Cincinnati Radiation Tests

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The Treatment is the story of one tragedy of medical research that stretched over eleven years and affected the lives of hundreds of people in an Ohio city. Thirty years ago the creator, then an assistant professor of English, acquired a large set of little-known medical papers at her university. These documents told a grotesque story. Cancer patients coming to the public hospital on her campus were being swept into secret experiments for the U.S. military; they were being irradiated over their whole bodies as if they were soldiers in nuclear war. Of the ninety men and women exposed to this remedy, twenty-one died within a month of their radiations.
Martha Stephens’s report on these deaths led to the halting of the tests, but local papers did not print her charges, and for a few years people in Cincinnati had no way of knowing that lethal experiments had taken place there. In 1994 other military tests were brought to light, and a yellowed copy of Stephens’s original report used to be delivered to a television newsroom. In Ohio, major publicity ensued—at long last—and reached around the globe. Stephens uncovered the names of the sufferers, and a legal action used to be filed against thirteen researchers and their institutions. A federal pass judgement on compared the deeds of the doctors to the medical crimes of the Nazis all over World War II and refused to dismiss the researchers from the suit. After many bitter disputes in court, they agreed to settle the case with the families of those they had afflicted. In 1999 a memorial plaque used to be raised in a yard of the hospital.
Who were these doctors and why had they done as they did? Who were the people whose lives they took? Who used to be the reporter who could not disregard the story, the young attorney who first developed the case, the pass judgement on who issued the historic ruling against the doctors? This is Stephens’s moving account of all that transpired in these lives and her own all over this epic battle between medicine and human rights.

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