Dark Medicine

The 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.

William R. LaFleur is the E. Dale Saunders Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan.

Gernot B+¦hme recently retired as Professor of Philosophy at the Technical University of Darmstadt. His books in English include Coping with Science and Ethics in Context: The Art of Dealing with Serious Questions.

Susumu Shimazono is Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Tokyo and serves on the Japanese Prime Minister's Advisory Panel on Bioethics.

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: The Knowledge Tree and Its Double Fruit	p. 1
The Gruesome Past and Lessons Not Yet Learned
Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research: Taking Seriously the Case of Viktor von Weizsacker	p. 15
Medical Research, Morality, and History: The German Journal Ethik and the Limits of Human Experimentation	p. 30
Experimentation on Humans and Informed Consent: How We Arrived Where We Are	p. 46
The Silence of the Scholars	p. 57
The Ethics of Evil: The Challenge and the Lessons of Nazi Medical Experiments	p. 63
Unit 731 and the Human Skulls Discovered in 1989: Physicians Carrying Out Organized Crimes	p. 73
Biohazard: Unit 731 in Postwar Japanese Politics of National "Forgetfulness"	p. 85
Biological Weapons: The United States and the Korean War	p. 105
Experimental Injury: Wound Ballistics and Aviation Medicine in Mid-century America	p. 121
Stumbling Toward Bioethics: Human Experiments Policy and the Early Cold War	p. 138
The Conflicted Present and the Worrisome Future
Toward an Ethics of Iatrogenesis	p. 149
Strategies for Survival versus Accepting Impermanence: Rationalizing Brain Death and Organ Transplantation Today	p. 165
The Age of a "Revolutionized Human Body" and the Right to Die	p. 180
Why We Must Be Prudent in Research Using Human Embryos: Differing Views of Human Dignity	p. 201
Eugenics, Reproductive Technologies, and the Feminist Dilemma in Japan	p. 223
Refusing Utopia's Bait: Research, Rationalizations, and Hans Jonas	p. 233
List of Contributors	p. 247
Index	p. 253
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