Dark Medicine

Introduction: The Knowledge Tree and Its Double Fruit William R. LaFleur Part 1. The Gruesome Past and Lessons Not Yet Learned 1. Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research: Taking Seriously the Case of Viktor von Weizsacker Gernot Bohme; 2. Medical Research, Morality, and History: The German Journal Ethik and the Limits of Human Experimentation Andreas Frewer; 3. Experimentation on Humans and Informed Consent: How We Arrived Where We Are Rolf Winau; 4. The Silence of the Scholars Benno Muller-Hill; 5. The Ethics of Evil: The Challenge and the Lessons of Nazi Medical Experiments Arthur L. Caplan; 6. Unit 731 and the Human Skulls Discovered in 1989: Physicians Carrying Out Organized Crimes Kei-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 War G. Cameron Hurst III; 9. Experimental Injury: Wound Ballistics and Aviation Medicine in Mid-century America Susan Lindee; 10. Stumbling Toward Bioethics: Human Experiments Policy and the Early Cold War Jonathan D. Moreno Part 2. The Conflicted Present and the Worrisome Future 11. Toward an Ethics of Iatrogenesis Renee C. Fox; 12. Strategies for Survival versus Accepting Impermanence: Rationalizing Brain Death and Organ Transplantation Today Tetsuo Yamaori; 13. The Age of a "Revolutionized Human Body" and the Right to Die Yoshihiko Komatsu; 14. Why We Must Be Prudent in Research Using Human Embryos: Differing Views of Human Dignity Susumu Shimazono; 15. Eugenics, Reproductive Technologies, and the Feminist Dilemma in Japan Miho Ogino; 16. Refusing Utopia's Bait: Research, Rationalizations, and Hans Jonas William R. LaFleur