1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451866403321

Titolo

Dark medicine [[electronic resource] ] : rationalizing unethical medical research / / edited by William R. LaFleur, Gernot Böhme, and Susumu Shimazono

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-07829-1

9786612078293

0-253-11680-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Collana

Bioethics and the humanities

Altri autori (Persone)

LaFleurWilliam R

BöhmeGernot

ShimazonoSusumu <1948->

Disciplina

174.2/8

Soggetti

Human experimentation in medicine - Moral and ethical aspects

Medicine - Research - Moral and ethical aspects

Medical ethics - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Rationalizing unethical medical research: taking seriously the case of Viktor von Weizsäcker / Gernot Böhme -- Medical research, morality, and history: the German journal Ethik and the limits of human experimentation / Andreas Frewer -- Experimentation on humans and informed consent: how we arrived where we are / Rolf Winau -- The silence of the scholars / Benno Müller-Hill -- The ethics of evil: the challenge and the lessons of Nazi medical experiments / Arthur L. Caplan -- Unit 731 and the human skulls discovered in 1989: physicians carrying out organized crimes / Kei-ichi Tsuneishi -- Biohazard: unit 731 in postwar Japanese politics of national "forgetfulness" / Frederick R. Dickinson -- Biological weapons: the United States and the Korean War / G. Cameron Hurst III -- Experimental injury: wound ballistics and aviation medicine in mid-century America / Susan Lindee -- Stumbling toward bioethics: human experiments policy and the early Cold War / Jonathan D. Moreno --



Toward an ethics of iatrogenesis / Renée C. Fox -- Strategies for survival versus accepting impermanence: rationalizing brain death and organ transplantation today / Tetsuo Yamaori -- The age of a "revolutionized human body" and the right to die / Yoshihiko Komatsu -- Why we must be prudent in research using human embryos: differing views of human dignity / Susumu Shimazono -- Eugenics, reproductive technologies, and the feminist dilemma in Japan / Miho Ogino -- Refusing utopia's bait: research, rationalizations, and Hans Jonas / William R. LaFleur.

Sommario/riassunto

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

2.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00123761

Titolo

Novel Methods in Computational Finance / Matthias Ehrhardt, Michael Günther, E. Jan W. ter Maten editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, : Springer, 2017

Titolo uniforme

Novel Methods in Computational Finance

Descrizione fisica

xviii, 606 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Soggetti

65Nxx - Numerical methods for partial differential equations, boundary value problems [MSC 2020]

91Bxx - Mathematical economics [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia