Moreno Undue Risk

Secret State Experiments on Humans
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-60555-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

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 Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

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).