Dark medicine: rationalizing unethical medical research

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Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Knowledge Tree and Its Double Fruit William R. LaFleur Part 1. The Gruesome Past and Lessons Not Yet Learned 1. Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research: Taking Seriously the Case of Viktor von Weizsacker Gernot Bohme 2. Medical Research, Morality, and History: The German Journal Ethik and the Limits of Human Experimentation Andreas Frewer 3. Experimentation on Humans and Informed Consent: How We Arrived Where We Are Rolf Winau 4. The Silence of the Scholars Benno Muller-Hill 5. The Ethics of Evil: The Challenge and the Lessons of Nazi Medical Experiments Arthur L. Caplan 6. Unit 731 and the Human Skulls Discovered in 1989: Physicians Carrying Out Organized Crimes Kei-ichi Tsuneishi 7. Biohazard: Unit 731 in Postwar Japanese Politics of National Forgetfulness Frederick R. Dickinson 8. Biological Weapons: The United States and the Korean War G. Cameron Hurst III 9. Experimental Injury: Wound Ballistics and Aviation Medicine in Mid-century America Susan Lindee 10. Stumbling Toward Bioethics: Human Experiments Policy and the Early Cold War Jonathan D. Moreno Part 2. The Conflicted Present and the Worrisome Future 11. Toward an Ethics of Iatrogenesis Renee C. Fox 12. Strategies for Survival versus Accepting Impermanence: Rationalizing Brain Death and Organ Transplantation Today Tetsuo Yamaori 13. The Age of a Revolutionized Human Body and the Right to Die Yoshihiko Komatsu 14. Why We Must Be Prudent in Research Using Human Embryos: Differing Views of Human Dignity Susumu Shimazono 15. Eugenics, Reproductive Technologies, and the Feminist Dilemma in Japan Miho Ogino 16. Refusing Utopia's Bait: Research, Rationalizations, and Hans Jonas William R. LaFleur List of Contributors Index