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Dark medicine : rationalizing unethical medical research
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- Creator
- edited by William R. LaFleur, Gernot Böhme, and Susumu Shimazono
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xii, 259 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9786612078293, 1282078291, 9781282078291, 9780253348722, 0253116805, 0253348722, 9780253116802, 6612078294
- OCLC
- ocn476125055, ocn191077510, ocm77830292
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Human experimentation in medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects.
- Medicine -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects.
- Medical ethics -- History.
- Human Experimentation -- ethics.
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- Human Experimentation -- history.
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- Bioethical Issues.
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- History, 20th Century.
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