Dark medicine : rationalizing unethical medical research / edited by William R. LaFleur, Gernot Böhme, and Susumu Shimazono.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2007.
Description
xii, 259 pages ; 25 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Rare books genre
    Series
    Bioethics and the humanities [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Rationalizing unethical medical research: taking seriously the case of Viktor von Weizsäcker / Gernot Böhme
    • 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 Müller-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 / Renée C. Fox
    • Strategies for survival versus accepting impermanence: rationalizing brain death and organ transplantation today / Tetsuo Yamaori
    • The age of a "revolutionized human body" and the right to die / Yoshihiko Komatsu
    • Why we must be prudent in research using human embryos: differing views of human dignity / Susumu Shimazono
    • Eugenics, reproductive technologies, and the feminist dilemma in Japan / Miho Ogino
    • Refusing utopia's bait: research, rationalizations, and Hans Jonas / William R. LaFleur.
    ISBN
    • 9780253348722 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0253348722 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2007000635
    OCLC
    77830292
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