Secret Science - A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments

Charting the ethical trajectory and culture of military science from its development in 1915 in response to Germany's first use of chemical weapons in WW1 to the ongoing attempts by the international community to ban these weapons, Secret Science offers a comprehensive history of chemical and biological weapons research by former Allied powers.

List of contents

• Prologue: The Girl with a Gas Mask


• 1: Introduction


• 2: Justifying Chemical Warfare


• 3: Research Without Bounds


• 4: Preparing for Total Warfare


• 5: Deadly New Gases


• 6: Flying the Atlantic


• 7: Ethics Outdoors


• 8: Twilight Threshold


• 9: Ethics Within Limits


• 10: The Politics of Medical Memory


• Epilogue: The Truth Lies in Fragmented Tales

About the author

Ulf Schmidt is Professor of Modern History at the University of Kent, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He was previously Wellcome Trust Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, Oxford, and Research Associate at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford.

His research interests are in the area of the history of modern medical ethics, warfare and policy in twentieth-century Europe and the United States. He has published widely on the history of Nazi Germany, the history of human experimentation, the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial and the Nuremberg Code, the history of eugenics and euthanasia, and the history of medical film and propaganda.

Summary

Charting the ethical trajectory and culture of military science from its development in 1915 in response to Germany's first use of chemical weapons in WW1 to the ongoing attempts by the international community to ban these weapons, Secret Science offers a comprehensive history of chemical and biological weapons research by former Allied powers.

Product details

• Authors: Ulf Schmidt, Ulf (Professor of Modern History Schmidt, Schmidt Ulf
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9780198833802
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883380-2
• No. of pages: 688
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th Century, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 21st Century, HISTORY / Military / Biological & Chemical Warfare, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, General and world history, Chemical & biological weapons, Chemical and biological weapons