Dark Medicine Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research

Name: Dark Medicine Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research
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ISBN: 9780253220417

ISBN-10: 0253220416

ISBN-13: 9780253220417

Edition: 2008

Authors: William R. LaFleur, Gernot Bï¿½hme, Susumu Shimazono

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Where does one set the limits on research involving human subjects?

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 7/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Knowledge Tree and Its Double Fruit




The Gruesome Past and Lessons Not Yet Learned



Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research: Taking Seriously the Case of Viktor von Weizsacker




Medical Research, Morality, and History: The German Journal Ethik and the Limits of Human Experimentation




Experimentation on Humans and Informed Consent: How We Arrived Where We Are




The Silence of the Scholars




The Ethics of Evil: The Challenge and the Lessons of Nazi Medical Experiments




Unit 731 and the Human Skulls Discovered in 1989: Physicians Carrying Out Organized Crimes




Biohazard: Unit 731 in Postwar Japanese Politics of National "Forgetfulness"




Biological Weapons: The United States and the Korean War




Experimental Injury: Wound Ballistics and Aviation Medicine in Mid-century America




Stumbling Toward Bioethics: Human Experiments Policy and the Early Cold War




The Conflicted Present and the Worrisome Future



Toward an Ethics of Iatrogenesis




Strategies for Survival versus Accepting Impermanence: Rationalizing Brain Death and Organ Transplantation Today




The Age of a "Revolutionized Human Body" and the Right to Die




Why We Must Be Prudent in Research Using Human Embryos: Differing Views of Human Dignity




Eugenics, Reproductive Technologies, and the Feminist Dilemma in Japan




Refusing Utopia's Bait: Research, Rationalizations, and Hans Jonas



List of Contributors


Index