Undue Risk

Secret State Experiments on Humans
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-415-92835-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 662 g

From the courtrooms of Nuremberg to the battlefields of the Gulf War, Undue Risk exposes a variety of government policies and specific cases, includingplutonium injections to unwilling hospital patients, and even the attempted recruitment of Nazi medical scientists bythe U.S. government after World War II.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moreno, Jonathan D

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Biomedizin, Medizinische Forschung, Klinische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsThe Long Road to Salman PakThe Home Front: Our Science, Our BoysNuremberg's ShadowDeals With DevilsThe Radiation ExperimentsThe Pentagon Meets the Nuremberg CodeIn the WildernessThe Rules ChangeOnce More into the GulfAfterwordNotesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan D. Moreno is former senior staff member of President Clinton's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, is Kornfeld Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia. He is also Senior Research Fellow at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University and has been a bioethics columnist for abcnews.com. Among his previous books are Deciding Together: Bioethics and Moral Consensus (1995), Ethics in Clinical Practice (1999), and Arguing Euthanasia (1995).