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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

LaFleur, William R.

Böhme, Gernot.

Shimazono, Susumu, 1948-

Series:

Bioethics and the humanities.

Bioethics and the humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human experimentation in medicine--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human experimentation in medicine.

Medicine--Research--Moral and ethical aspects.

Medicine.

Medical ethics--History.

Medical ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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 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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-07829-1

9786612078293

0-253-11680-5

OCLC:

476125055