Secret science : a century of poison warfare and human experiments / Ulf Schmidt.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Schmidt, Ulf, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Chemical agents (Munitions).
• Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use.
• Human experimentation in medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (670 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Secret Science traces, for the first time, the history of chemical and biological weapons research by the former Allied powers, particularly in Britain, the United States, and Canada. It charts the ethical trajectory and culture of military science, from its initial development in response to Germany's first use of chemical weapons in the First World War to the ongoing attempts by the international community to ban these types of weapons once and for all."--Back cover.

Contents:

• ""Cover""; ""Secret Science: A century of poison warfare and human experiments""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""List of Images""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Prologue""; ""1: Introduction ""; ""Porton Down, England, 1953""; ""A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments""; ""2: Justifying Chemical Warfare ""; ""Ypres 1915""; ""Porton Down""; ""Servants of the Realm""; ""Images of Gas Warfare""; ""Crisis of Legitimacy""; ""Animal Experimentation""; ""Human Experimentation""; ""Expert Opinion""; ""The Geneva Protocol""; ""Foreboding""
• ""3: Research without Bounds """"Schraderâ€?s Secret Compound""; ""Nazi Chemical Warfare Policy""; ""Nerve Agents""; ""Accidents and Experiments""; ""Concentration Camps""; ""Germany in Retreat""; ""4: Preparing for Total Warfare ""; ""The Battle of Britain""; ""The Making of Experts""; ""Human Experiments""; ""Global Expansion""; ""Porton in India""; ""The War in the Pacific""; ""Ethical Relativism""; ""5: Deadly New Gases ""; ""A Novel Type of â€?Nuisanceâ€?""; ""Raubkammer""; ""Portonâ€?s Nerve Agent Programme ""; ""Nuremberg""; ""Ethics and Experiments""; ""Crossing the Threshold ""
• ""6: Flying the Atlantic """"Unlawful Killing""; ""The Inquiry""; ""Informed Consent""; ""The Common Cold""; ""The Adrian Committee""; ""Limited Leverage""; ""VX Testing""; ""An Untimely Death""; ""7: Ethics in the Open Air ""; ""Experimental Environments""; ""Sea Trials""; ""Operation Crusoe""; ""Vulnerability Trials""; ""Zinc Cadmium Sulphide Trials""; ""Lyme Bay Trials""; ""Defence Policy""; ""Environmental Security""; ""8: Twilight Threshold ""; ""Ethics in Transition""; ""Truth Drugs""; ""Screening Humans""; ""Incapacitating Humans""; ""Crisis Management""; ""Ethics Transformed""
• ""9: Ethics within Limits """"Ethics Exposed""; ""The Limits to Helsinki""; ""Public Relations""; ""Power Politics""; ""Talking to the Dead""; ""10: The Politics of Medical Memory ""; ""Mnemogogues""; ""A British â€?Erin Brockovichâ€?""; ""Operation Antler""; ""The Inquest""; ""Mediation""; ""Remembering the Living""; ""Epilogue ""; ""Endnotes""; ""Chapter 1""; ""Chapter 2""; ""Chapter 3""; ""Chapter 4""; ""Chapter 5""; ""Chapter 6""; ""Chapter 7""; ""Chapter 8""; ""Chapter 9""; ""Chapter 10""; ""Epilogue""; ""Bibliography""; ""Archive material ""; ""Secondary material""; ""Index""

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 0-19-106297-9
• 0-19-883380-6

OCLC:

907950792