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Arsen P. Fiks. Self-Experimenters: Sources for Study. Edited by Paul A. Buelow. Bibliographies and Indexes in Medical Studies, no. 16. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003. xiv + 292 pp. $79.95 (0-313-32348-8).
The author of this book intended it to be a "dictionary of self-experiments," and some 245 pages are devoted to a list of "physicians, biologists, bacteriologists, pharmacologists, chemists, physicists, business-people, and scholars in non-medical fields" (p. vii) who engaged in deliberate experiments using themselves as subjects. The author's...