Dark medicine rationalizing unethical medical research /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: LaFleur, William R., Böhme, Gernot, Shimazono, Susumu, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007.
Series:Bioethics and the humanities.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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.