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Undue Risk Secret State Experiments on Humans

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ISBN-10: 0415928354

ISBN-13: 9780415928359

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: Jonathan D. Moreno

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Undue Riskis an unprecedented and chilling history of the use of human subjects in atomic, biological and chemical warfare experiments by the U.S. government from World War II to the present. Jonathan Moreno, a senior researcher on the president's special commission, goes where few researchers have gone before, exploring secret government documents which reveal a plethora of government experiments. He exposes startling details of experiments like those involving the exposure of soldiers to atomic blast fallout and secret LSD and mescaline experiments. From the courtrooms of Nuremberg to the battlefields of the Gulf War,Undue Riskexposes a variety of government policies and specific cases,…    
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Book details

List price: $46.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/22/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Jonathan D. Moreno is Kornfeld Professor and Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia and a Fellow at the Center for American Progress. He has been a senior staff member for two presidential commissions and an advisor to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Moreno is past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Preface
Acknowledgments
The Long Road to Salman Pak
The Home Front: Our Science, Our Boys
Nuremberg's Shadow
Deals With Devils
The Radiation Experiments
The Pentagon Meets the Nuremberg Code
In the Wilderness
The Rules Change
Once More into the Gulf
Afterword
Notes
Index