Two young women in their twenties, sisters, sit in an old car park near by. They are anna and raclin mendieta, cuban refugees who landed in this unlikely place as children in 19 73. Anna was a first year m f a student at the university of iowa. She had roped raclen into helping her make a new piece. Like many works anna made, it would come to seem tragically prophetic in the wake of her death.
The Minnesota Starvation Experiment could never be done today. No scientist could get permission to starve 36 healthy people for close to a year. But why? Revisionist History tries to follow the strange logic that governs our thinking about medical experiments.
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