Dark medicine
Subtitle: rationalizing unethical medical research
By: edited by William R. LaFleur, Gernot Böhme, and Susumu Shimazono.
Contributors: LaFleur, William R.; Böhme, Gernot.; Shimazono, Susumu, 1948-
Series: Bioethics and the humanities
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780253348722
Subjects: Human experimentation in medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects; Medicine -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects; Medical ethics -- History; Human Experimentation -- ethics; Human Experimentation -- history; Bioethical Issues; History, 20th Century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rationalizing unethical medical research: taking seriously the case of Viktor von Weizsäcker / Gernot Böhme; title: Medical research, morality, and history: the German journal Ethik and the limits of human experimentation / Andreas Frewer; title: Experimentation on humans and informed consent: how we arrived where we are / Rolf Winau; title: The silence of the scholars / Benno Müller-Hill; title: The ethics of evil: the challenge and the lessons of Nazi medical experiments / Arthur L. Caplan; title: Unit 731 and the human skulls discovered in 1989: physicians carrying out organized crimes / Kei-ichi Tsuneishi; title: Biohazard: unit 731 in postwar Japanese politics of national "forgetfulness" / Frederick R. Dickinson; title: Biological weapons: the United States and the Korean War / G. Cameron Hurst III; title: Experimental injury: wound ballistics and aviation medicine in mid-century America / Susan Lindee; title: Stumbling toward bioethics: human experiments policy and the early cold war / Jonathan D. Moreno; title: Toward an ethics of iatrogenesis / Renée C. Fox; title: Strategies for survival versus accepting impermanence: rationalizing brain death and organ transplantation today / Tetsuo Yamaori; title: The age of a "revolutionized human body" and the right to die / Yoshihiko Komatsu; title: Why we must be prudent in research using human embryos: differing views of human dignity / Susumu Shimazono; title: Eugenics, reproductive technologies, and the feminist dilemma in Japan / Miho Ogino; title: Refusing utopia's bait: research, rationalizations, and Hans Jonas / William R. LaFleur.