Review of "Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory" by Cristina Visperas (New York University Press)
In "Skin Theory," Cristina Visperas identifies how the captive body in the postwar era is positioned as the ideal test subject. She does so through a thorough interrogation of Albert Kligman’s primarily dermatological human experiments at Holmesburg Prison to argue that racial capture enab...
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Cultural Studies Association
2023-10-01
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| Online Access: | https://csalateral.org/reviews/skin-theory-visual-culture-postwar-prison-laboratory-visperas-teed/ |