Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-230) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Medical atrocities, history and ethics / Arthur Kleinman, Jing-Bao Nie, and Mark Selden -- Unit 731 and the Japanese Imperial Army's biological warfare program / Tsuneishi Keiichi -- Medicine-related war crimes trials and post-war politics and ethics : the unresolved case of Unit 731, Japan's bio-warfare program / Suzy Wang -- Research on humans at the Khabarovsk War Crimes Trial : a historical and ethical examination / Boris G. Yudin -- Data generated in Japan's biowarfare experiments on human victims in China, 1932-1945, and the ethics of using them / Till Bärnighausen -- Discovering traces of humanity : taking individual responsibility for medical atrocities / Nanyan Guo -- 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 -- Bioethics and exceptionalism : a German example of learning from "medical" atrocities / Ole Döring -- Racial hygienist Otmar von Vershuer, the Confessing Church, and comparative reflections on postwar rehabilitation / Peter Degen -- America's memory problems : diaspora groups, civil society and the perils of "chosen amnesia" / David B. MacDonald -- Japanese and American war atrocities, historical memory, and reconciliation : the Asia-Pacific War to today / Mark Selden -- Annotated bibliography : primary sources and secondary literature in Japanese, Chinese and English / Nanyan Guo and Jing-Bao Nie -- Appendix A: The experiments conducted under the Third Reich and Imperial Japan and postwar use of such data / Suzy Wang -- Appendix B: The experiments conducted under the US government / Suzy Wang.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.