{"product_id":"dark-medicine-rationalizing-unethical-medical-research-paperback-softback-9780253220417","title":"Dark Medicine; Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253220417","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDark Medicine\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRationalizing Unethical Medical Research\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWilliam R. LaFleur (Edited by), Gernot Böhme (Edited by), Susumu Shimazono (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253220417\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 July 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.5 cm, 0.435 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Lafleur and his coeditors have assembled a very useful group of essays looking at the abuse of medical research in wartime Japan and Germany, as well as in postwar America. . . . Recommended.\"—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A fascinating and timely new book . . . The take-home message of the 16 contributors to Dark Medicine is that a nation's books on past episodes of unethical practice should never be fully closed, and that ethical committees in science and medicine should never neglect the historical perspective of their own and other countries.\"—\u003ci\u003eNew Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \". . . important issues are raised that should be considered by everyone who is interested in the history and ethics of medicine and medical research.August 2009\"—Charles W. Lidz, \u003ci\u003ePh.D.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[T]his volume raises some of the most profound issues in the history of medical research. . . . important issues are raised that should be considered by everyone who is interested in the history and ethics of medicine and medical research.August 1, 2009\"—Charles W. Lidz, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \". . . This collection of essays lends relevance to this dark history in a way no computerized module on human subjects protection can.2008\"—Preeti N. Malani, MD, MSJ, \u003ci\u003eVeterans Affairs Healthcare System Ann Arbor, UMI\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Most of the articles were noteworthy insofar as they provoked the reader to ruminate on the underlying similarities between rationalizations. Since this is the first book of its kind, it provides a handy starting point for scholars working in bioethics and, in particular, research ethics. Each article is well documented with references, and the collection includes helpful introductory and concluding essays.Winter 2008\"—Stephen Napier, \u003ci\u003eNational Catholic Bioethics Center\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This set of powerful essays sheds light on medicine and its practitioners past, present and future and questions the headlong plunge of developed and developing societies into more and more aggressive technological attacks on illness to preserve life itself. It is truly worthwhile reading.\"—\u003cbr\u003e \". . . Framed by the belief that unethical research is not simply a problem of the past, Dark Medicine lends thoughtful historical content to the discussion of modern-day dilemmas. The result is a unique fusion of philosophy, religion, history, and bioethics.2008; 300(10)\"—John L. Zeller, MD, PhD, \u003ci\u003eContributing Editor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"'Dark Medicine: Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research' explores the mystery of how apparently upstanding citizens can engage in appalling human research experiments. . . . The book's premise is that rationalization is at the heart of the problem. Physicians and scientists did not participate in the Nazi atrocities because of incompetence, madness or coercion; they participated because they convinced themselves that it was the right thing to do. . .August 2010\"—Norman M. Goldfarb, \u003ci\u003eManaging Director of First Clinical Research LLC\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Certain books make you reconsider your views even though you really would rather not. This edited collection is one of those... It is truly worthwhile reading.2010, Volume 7\"—\u003ci\u003eBioethical Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A great deal has been written in recent years about human subject research. This book is different and invaluable. Its focus is at once historical and international, bringing together commentators and scholars from a number of countries and a variety of disciplines. Human subject research raises one of the basic moral problems of modern medicine: in trying to do research to save the lives of the sick, how do we protect those whom we must use to carry out the research? This book deals richly and directly with a history of human subject research that has had many dark moments. This book will help us remember what many would prefer to forget.\"—Daniel Callahan, \u003ci\u003eDirector, International Program, The Hastings Center\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"By identifying and analyzing how the unethical was justified and rationalized, the authors draw moral and political lessons from this disturbing history that we have not yet really learned. —Nie Jin\"—Bao, author of Medical Ethics in China\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe trial of the \"German doctors\" exposed atrocities of Nazi medical science and led to the Nuremberg Code governing human experimentation. In Japan, Unit 731 carried out hideous experiments on captured Chinese and downed American pilots. In the United States, stories linger of biological experimentation during the Korean War. This collection of essays looks at the dark medical research conducted during and after World War II. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Knowledge Tree and Its Double FruitWilliam R. LaFleur\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. The Gruesome Past and Lessons Not Yet Learned\u003cbr\u003e 1. Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research: Taking Seriously the Case of Viktor von WeizsäckerGernot Böhme\u003cbr\u003e 2. Medical Research, Morality, and History: The German Journal Ethik and the Limits of Human ExperimentationAndreas Frewer\u003cbr\u003e 3. Experimentation on Humans and Informed Consent: How We Arrived Where We AreRolf Winau\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Silence of the ScholarsBenno Müller-Hill\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Ethics of Evil: The Challenge and the Lessons of Nazi Medical ExperimentsArthur L. Caplan\u003cbr\u003e 6. Unit 731 and the Human Skulls Discovered in 1989: Physicians Carrying Out Organized CrimesKei-ichi Tsuneishi\u003cbr\u003e 7. Biohazard: Unit 731 in Postwar Japanese Politics of National \"Forgetfulness\"\u003cbr\u003e Frederick R. Dickinson\u003cbr\u003e 8. Biological Weapons: The United States and the Korean WarG. Cameron Hurst III\u003cbr\u003e 9. Experimental Injury: Wound Ballistics and Aviation Medicine in Mid-century AmericaSusan Lindee\u003cbr\u003e 10. Stumbling Toward Bioethics: Human Experiments Policy and the Early Cold WarJonathan D. Moreno\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. The Conflicted Present and the Worrisome Future\u003cbr\u003e 11. Toward an Ethics of IatrogenesisRenée C. Fox\u003cbr\u003e 12. Strategies for Survival versus Accepting Impermanence: Rationalizing Brain Death and Organ Transplantation TodayTetsuo Yamaori\u003cbr\u003e 13. The Age of a \"Revolutionized Human Body\" and the Right to DieYoshihiko Komatsu\u003cbr\u003e 14. Why We Must Be Prudent in Research Using Human Embryos: Differing Views of Human DignitySusumu Shimazono\u003cbr\u003e 15. Eugenics, Reproductive Technologies, and the Feminist Dilemma in JapanMiho Ogino\u003cbr\u003e 16. Refusing Utopia's Bait: Research, Rationalizations, and Hans JonasWilliam R. LaFleur\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739385884952,"sku":"9780253220417","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/dark-medicine-rationalizing-unethical-medical-research-paperback-softback-9780253220417","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}