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Informationen zum Autor William R. LaFleur is the E. Dale Saunders Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan. Gernot Böhme recently retired as Professor of Philosophy at the Technical University of Darmstadt. His books in English include Coping with Science and Ethics in Context: The Art of Dealing with Serious Questions. Susumu Shimazono is Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Tokyo and serves on the Japanese Prime Minister's Advisory Panel on Bioethics. Klappentext Contributors describe this research, how it was brought to light, and the rationalizations of those who perpetrated and benefited from it; look at the response to the revelations of this horrific research and its implications for present-day medicine and ethics; and offer lessons about human experimentation in an age of human embryo research and genetic engineering. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays that looks at the dark medical research conducted during and after World War II. It describes this research, how it was brought to light, and the rationalizations of those who perpetrated and benefited from it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Knowledge Tree and Its Double FruitWilliam R. LaFleur Part 1. The Gruesome Past and Lessons Not Yet Learned 1. Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research: Taking Seriously the Case of Viktor von WeizsäckerGernot Böhme 2. Medical Research, Morality, and History: The German Journal Ethik and the Limits of Human ExperimentationAndreas Frewer 3. Experimentation on Humans and Informed Consent: How We Arrived Where We AreRolf Winau 4. The Silence of the ScholarsBenno Müller-Hill 5. The Ethics of Evil: The Challenge and the Lessons of Nazi Medical ExperimentsArthur L. Caplan 6. Unit 731 and the Human Skulls Discovered in 1989: Physicians Carrying Out Organized CrimesKei-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 WarG. Cameron Hurst III 9. Experimental Injury: Wound Ballistics and Aviation Medicine in Mid-century AmericaSusan Lindee 10. Stumbling Toward Bioethics: Human Experiments Policy and the Early Cold WarJonathan D. Moreno Part 2. The Conflicted Present and the Worrisome Future 11. Toward an Ethics of IatrogenesisRenée C. Fox 12. Strategies for Survival versus Accepting Impermanence: Rationalizing Brain Death and Organ Transplantation TodayTetsuo Yamaori 13. The Age of a "Revolutionized Human Body" and the Right to DieYoshihiko Komatsu 14. Why We Must Be Prudent in Research Using Human Embryos: Differing Views of Human DignitySusumu Shimazono 15. Eugenics, Reproductive Technologies, and the Feminist Dilemma in JapanMiho Ogino 16. Refusing Utopia's Bait: Research, Rationalizations, and Hans JonasWilliam R. LaFleur List of Contributors Index ...
