Japan's Wartime Medical Atrocities: Comparative Inquiries in Science, History, and Ethics

This book examines Japan's wartime medical atrocities and their postwar aftermath from a comparative perspective and inquires into perennial issues of historical memory, science, politics, society and ethics elicited by these rebarbative events.

Jing-Bao Nie is an Associate Professor at the Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand, and Furong Visiting Professor at the Centre for Moral Culture, Hunan Normal University, China. Nanyan Guo is an Associate Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan. Mark Selden is a Research Associate in the East Asia Program at Cornell University, USA and a coordinator of The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. Arthur Kleinman is the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Medical Anthropology and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, USA.