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Zusatztext Schmidt's book is a welcome addition to the literature and represents a view of chemical warfare that is focused on the medical and political side rather than the military aspects of the weapons. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A new comprehensive account of British and North American chemical and biological weapons development over the last century. Using previously top secret military, scientific and government archival material, it also provides a significant new interpretation of one of the biggest cover-ups of Cold War history. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
