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by Böhme, Gernot LaFleur, William R. Shimazono, Susumu

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The trial of the "German doctors" exposed atrocities of Nazi medical science and led to the Nuremberg Code governing human experimentation. In Japan, Unit 731 carried out hideous experiments on captured Chinese and downed American pilots. In the United States, stories linger of biological experimentation during the Korean War. This collection of essays looks at the dark medical research conducted during and after World War II. Contributors describe this research, how it was brought to light, an…

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The trial of the "German doctors" exposed atrocities of Nazi medical science and led to the Nuremberg Code governing human experimentation. In Japan, Unit 731 carried out hideous experiments on captured Chinese and downed American pilots. In the United States, stories linger of biological experimentation during the Korean War. This collection of essays looks at the dark medical research conducted during and after World War II. Contributors describe this research, how it was brought to light, and the ratio.

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  • Publication Date:©2007.

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  • Description:1 online resource (xii, 259 pages)

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  • ISBN:9780253116802, 0253116805
  • oclc:ocn991910608
  • LC Classification:R853.H8
  • Dewey Decimal:174.2/8

Table of Contents

Rationalizing unethical medical research: taking seriously the case of Viktor von Weizsacker / Gernot Bohme -- Medical research, morality, and history: the German journal Ethik and the limits of human experimentation / Andreas Frewer -- Experimentation on humans and informed consent: how we arrived where we are / Rolf Winau -- The silence of the scholars / Benno Muller-Hill -- The ethics of evil: the challenge and the lessons of Nazi medical experiments / Arthur L. Caplan -- Unit 731 and the human skulls discovered in 1989: physicians carrying out organized crimes / Kei-ichi Tsuneishi -- Biohazard: unit 731 in postwar Japanese politics of national "forgetfulness" / Frederick R. Dickinson -- Biological weapons: the United States and the Korean War / G. Cameron Hurst III -- Experimental injury: wound ballistics and aviation medicine in mid-century America / Susan Lindee -- Stumbling toward bioethics: human experiments policy and the early Cold War / Jonathan D. Moreno -- Toward an ethics of iatrogenesis / Renee C. Fox -- Strategies for survival versus accepting impermanence: rationalizing brain death and organ transplantation today / Tetsuo Yamaori -- The age of a "revolutionized hu…

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Bioethical Issues Bioethics Bioéthique Éthique médicale -- Histoire Expérimentation humaine en médecine -- … History History, 20th Century Human Experimentation -- ethics Human Experimentation -- history Human experimentation in medicine -- Mo… Médecine -- Histoire -- 20e siècle Médecine -- Recherche Medical ethics Medical ethics -- History Medicine -- Research

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Böhme, Gernot LaFleur, William R. Shimazono, Susumu

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