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1 online resource (xii, 259 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Bioethics and the humanities
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Bioethics and the humanities.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Rationalizing unethical medical research: taking seriously the case of Viktor von Weizsäcker / Gernot Böhme -- Medical research, morality, and history: the German journal Ethik and the limits of human experimentation / Andreas Frewer -- Experimentation on humans and informed consent: how we arrived where we are / Rolf Winau -- The silence of the scholars / Benno Müller-Hill -- The ethics of evil: the challenge and the lessons of Nazi medical experiments / Arthur L. Caplan -- Unit 731 and the human skulls discovered in 1989: physicians carrying out organized crimes / Kei-ichi Tsuneishi -- Biohazard: unit 731 in postwar Japanese politics of national "forgetfulness" / Frederick R. Dickinson -- Biological weapons: the United States and the Korean War / G. Cameron Hurst III -- Experimental injury: wound ballistics and aviation medicine in mid-century America / Susan Lindee -- Stumbling toward bioethics: human experiments policy and the early Cold War / Jonathan D. Moreno -- Toward an ethics of iatrogenesis / Renée C. Fox -- Strategies for survival versus accepting impermanence: rationalizing brain death and organ transplantation today / Tetsuo Yamaori -- The age of a "revolutionized human body" and the right to die / Yoshihiko Komatsu -- Why we must be prudent in research using human embryos: differing views of human dignity / Susumu Shimazono -- Eugenics, reproductive technologies, and the feminist dilemma in Japan / Miho Ogino -- Refusing utopia's bait: research, rationalizations, and Hans Jonas / William R. LaFleur. |
| Summary |
This collection of essays looks at the dark medical research conducted during and after World War II. Contributors describe this research, how it was brought to light, and the rationalizations of those who perpetrated and benefited from it. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human experimentation in medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Human experimentation in medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Medicine -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Medicine -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Medicine -- Research. |
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Medical ethics -- History.
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Medical ethics. |
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History. |
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Human Experimentation -- history. |
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Human Experimentation -- ethics. |
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History, 20th Century. |
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Bioethical Issues. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1940-1990 |
| Indexed Term |
Menschenversuch Geschichte 1940-1990 Aufsatzsammlung |
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Menschenversuch Ethik Aufsatzsammlung |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
LaFleur, William R.
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Böhme, Gernot.
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Shimazono, Susumu, 1948-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dark medicine. Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2007 9780253348722 0253348722 (DLC) 2007000635 (OCoLC)77830292 |
| ISBN |
9780253116802 (electronic book) |
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0253116805 (electronic book) |
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9780253348722 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0253348722 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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