Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans - Hardcover

Moreno, Jonathan D.

 
9781138146174: Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans
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ISBN 10: 113814617X ISBN 13: 9781138146174
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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 DecidingTogether: Bioethics and Moral Consensus (1995), Ethics inClinical Practice (1999), and Arguing Euthanasia (1995).

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
113814617X
ISBN 13 
9781138146174
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
396

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