Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans (State Secrets)

Moreno, Jonathan D.

ISBN 10: 0716731428 / ISBN 13: 9780716731429

Edité par W. H. Freeman, 1999

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Titre : Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on ...

Éditeur : W. H. Freeman

Date d'édition : 1999

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : New

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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.

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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).