In this episode we talk with Dr. Cristina Visperas about her new book “Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory”, which explores the shocking past of the now-abandoned Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia. For decades Dr. Albert Kligman conducted unethical and harrowing medical experiments on Holmesburg’s inmates – in this episode we explore what those experiments were, how they formed the basis of the modern dermatology industry, and what happened in their aftermath.
Source: The Skin Experiments at Holmesburg Prison by Abandoned America
