Undue risk
Subtitle: secret state experiments on humans
By: Jonathan D. Moreno.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: Human experimentation in medicine -- United States; Weapons of mass destruction -- United States -- Testing; Informed consent (Medical law) -- United States
Description: Undue Risk is an unprecedented and chilling history of the use of human subjects in atomic, biological, and chemical warfare experiments by the U.S. government from World War II to the present. Jonathan Moreno, a senior researcher on the president's special commission, goes where few researchers have gone before, exploring secret government documents which reveal a plethora of government experiments. He exposes startling details of experiments like those involving the exposure of soldiers to atomic blast fallout and secret LSD and mescaline experiments. From the courtrooms of Nuremberg to the battlefields of the Gulf War, Undue Risk exposes a variety of government policies and specific cases, including plutonium injections to unwilling hospital patients, and even the attempted recruitment of Nazi medical scientists by the U.S. government after World War II. New to the paperback edition, this exciting read covers recent objections by U.S. military personnel to required anthrax vaccinations and new developments in government policies on experiments involving vulnerable human subjects.
Notes: Previously published by W.H. Freeman in 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.