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Title:

Dark medicine : rationalizing unethical medical research / edited by William R. LaFleur, Gernot Böhme, and Susumu Shimazono.

Publisher:

Indiana University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xii, 259 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Human experimentation in medicine--Moral and ethical aspects.
Medicine--Moral and ethical aspects.--Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical ethics--History.
Human Experimentation--ethics.
Human Experimentation--history.
Bioethical Issues.
History, 20th Century.
Ethische aspecten
Dilemma's.
Risico's.
Experimentele geneeskunde.
Waarden.
Proefpersonen
Eugenetica.
Iatrogene ziekten.
Biologische wapens.
Duitsland.
Japan.
Verenigde Staten.

Other Authors:

LaFleur, William R.
Böhme, Gernot.
Shimazono, Susumu, 1948-

Notes:

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.

Series:

Bioethics and the humanities

ISBN:

0253348722 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780253348722 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007000635

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)