| Description |
xii, 259 p. |
| Series |
Bioethics and the humanities |
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Bioethics and the humanities.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Rationalizing unethical medical research: taking seriously the case of Viktor von Weizsacker / Gernot Bohme -- 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 Muller-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 / Renee 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Human experimentation in medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Medicine -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Medical ethics -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
LaFleur, William R.
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Bohme, Gernot.
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Shimazono, Susumu, 1948-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780253348722 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0253348722 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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