Man, medicine, and the state
Subtitle: the human body as an object of government sponsored medical research in the 20th century
By: Wolfgang U. Eckart (Ed.).
Contributors: Eckart, Wolfgang Uwe.
Series: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft -- Bd. 2
Publisher: Steiner
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Stuttgart
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Human experimentation in medicine -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.; Human experimentation in medicine -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.; Medical ethics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.; Medical ethics -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.; Medical policy -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.; Medical policy -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.; National socialism and medicine -- Congresses.; Human Experimentation -- history.; Ethics, Medical -- history.; Human Rights -- history.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: This anthology unites articles about different aspects of scientific human experiments in the course of World War I to the 1960s. The majority of them deals with the development of medicine and life sciences as well as the national research promotion under the Nazi regime and during World War II. Studies on human experiments of French, Japanese, and US-American research enlarge the perspective on a problem of obviously international range. These empirical studies are supplemented by articles on the legal evaluation of this behaviour of scientists, as well as on the resulting movement to formulate binding transnational ethical codes on behalf of human experiments.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction / Wolfgang U. Eckart; title: "You should not use our Senegalese infantrymen as guinea pigs" : human vaccination experiments in the French army, 1916-1933 / Christian Bonah; title: First principles : Julius Moses and medical experimentation in the late Weimar Republic / Wolfgang U. Eckart, Andreas Reuland; title: Nutritional physiology in the "Third Reich" 1933-1945 / Alexander Neumann; title: Pervitin (Metamphitamine) tests, use and misuse in the German Wehrmacht / Peter Steinkamp; title: Funding the scientific foundations of race policies : Ernst Rüdin and the impact of career resources on pyschiatric genetics, ca. 1910-1945 / Volker Roelcke; title: The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Found) and the "backwardness" of German human genetics after World War II : scientific controversy over a proposal for sponsoring the discipline / Anne Cottebrune; title: Flying bodies, enforcing states : German aviation medical research from 1925 to 1975 and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft / Karl Heinz Roth; title: Otto Bickenbach's human experiments with chemical warfare agents and the concentration camp Natzweiler / Florian Schmaltz; title: Disregard for human life : hypothermia experiments in the Dachau concentration camp / Wolfgang U. Eckart, Hana Vondra; title: Barbaric research, Japanese human experiments in occupied China : relevance, alternatives, ethics / Till Bärnighausen; title: From deputy to "Reichsbevollmächtiger" and defendant at the Nuremberg medical trials : Dr. Kurt Blome and cancer research in National Socialist Germany / Gabriele Moser; title: German malariology experiments with humans, supported by the DFG until 1945 / Marrion Hulverscheidt; title: From medical war crimes to compensation : the plight of the victims of human experiments / Paul Weindling; title: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment / James H. Jones; title: Darkened by the shadow of the atom : burn research in 1950s America / Susan E. Lederer; title: Back to first principles : First World research in Third World countries / David Rothman; title: Contributors; title: Register.