Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans from the Second World War to Iraq and Beyond - Couverture rigide

Moreno, Jonathan D.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0716731428 ISBN 13 : 9780716731429

Editeur : W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

This text is about the use of human beings in experiments related to matters of national security. Most of the cases discussed concern atomic, biological and chemical warfare, and the author traces the history of these projects in the U.S. (most were top-secret) and identifies the ethical problems facing policy makers. In particular, he challenges the reader to consider how far a democracy may go in using citizens, those of other countries and medical scientists in potentially risky experiments when national security may be at stake.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Jonathan D. Moreno is former senior staff member of President Clinton's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, is Kornfeld Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia. He is also Senior Research Fellow at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University and has been a bioethics columnist for abcnews.com. Among his previous books are Deciding Together: Bioethics and Moral Consensus (1995), Ethics in Clinical Practice (1999), and Arguing Euthanasia (1995).

Présentation de l'éditeur

From the courtrooms of Nuremberg to the battlefields of the Gulf War, Undue Risk exposes a variety of government policies and specific cases, includingplutonium injections to unwilling hospital patients, and even the attempted recruitment of Nazi medical scientists bythe U.S. government after World War II.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0716731428
• ISBN 13: 9780716731429
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 367
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible