Dark medicine: rationalizing unethical medical research

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Knowledge Tree and Its Double Fruit

Part 1. The Gruesome Past and Lessons Not Yet Learned

1. Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research: Taking Seriously the Case of Viktor von Weizsacker

2. Medical Research, Morality, and History: The German Journal Ethik and the Limits of Human Experimentation

3. Experimentation on Humans and Informed Consent: How We Arrived Where We Are

4. The Silence of the Scholars

5. The Ethics of Evil: The Challenge and the Lessons of Nazi Medical Experiments

6. Unit 731 and the Human Skulls Discovered in 1989: Physicians Carrying Out Organized Crimes

7. Biohazard: Unit 731 in Postwar Japanese Politics of National "Forgetfulness"

8. Biological Weapons: The United States and the Korean War

9. Experimental Injury: Wound Ballistics and Aviation Medicine in Mid-century America

10. Stumbling Toward Bioethics: Human Experiments Policy and the Early Cold War

Part 2. The Conflicted Present and the Worrisome Future

11. Toward an Ethics of Iatrogenesis

12. Strategies for Survival versus Accepting Impermanence: Rationalizing Brain Death and Organ Transplantation Today

13. The Age of a "Revolutionized Human Body" and the Right to Die

14. Why We Must Be Prudent in Research Using Human Embryos: Differing Views of Human Dignity

15. Eugenics, Reproductive Technologies, and the Feminist Dilemma in Japan

16. Refusing Utopia's Bait: Research, Rationalizations, and Hans Jonas

List of Contributors

Index