Japan's wartime medical atrocities
Subtitle: comparative inquiries in science, history, and ethics
By: edited by Jing-Bao Nie ... [et al.].
Contributors: Nie, Jing-Bao, 1962-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415583770; 9780203849040
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Japan; World War, 1939-1945 -- Biological warfare -- Japan; World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- China; Human experimentation in medicine -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; Human experimentation in medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects; War crimes -- History -- 20th century; War crime trials -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Medical atrocities, history and ethics / Arthur Kleinman, Jing-Bao Nie, and Mark Selden; title: pt. 1. Japan's medical war crimes and post-war trials; title: Unit 731 and the Japanese Imperial Army's biological warfare program / Tsuneishi Keiichi; title: The legacies and implications of medicine-related war crimes trials and post-war politics / Suzy Wang; title: Research on humans at the Khabarovsk war crimes trial : an historical and ethical examination / Boris G. Yudin; title: pt. 2. Guilt and responsibility : individuals and nations; title: Data generated in Japan's biowarfare experiments on human victims in China, 1932-1945, and the ethics of using them / Till Bärnighausen; title: Discovering traces of humanity : taking individual responsibility for medical atrocities / Nanyan Guo; title: On the altar of nationalism and the nation-state : Japan's wartime medical atrocities, the American cover-up, and postwar Chinese responses / Jing-Bao Nie; title: pt. 3. Ethics and historical memory : parallel lessons from Germany and USA; title: Bioethics and exceptionalism : a German example of learning from medical atrocities / Ole Döring; title: The racial hygienist Otmar von Vershuer's relation with the Confessing Church and his post-war rehabilitation / Peter Degen; title: America's memory problems : diaspora, civil society, and the perils of "chosen amnesia" / David B. MacDonald; title: Japanese and American war atrocities, historical memory, and reconciliation / Mark Selden.