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Japan's wartime medical atrocities : comparative inquiries in science, history, and ethics / / edited by Jing-Bao Nie. [et al.] |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
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1-136-95259-4 |
1-136-95260-8 |
1-282-89865-5 |
9786612898655 |
0-203-84904-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (268 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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World War, 1939-1945 - Atrocities - Japan |
World War, 1939-1945 - Biological warfare - Japan |
World War, 1939-1945 - Atrocities - China |
Human experimentation in medicine - Japan - History - 20th century |
Human experimentation in medicine - Moral and ethical aspects |
War crimes - History - 20th century |
War crime trials - History - 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Medical atrocities, history and ethics; Part I: Japan's medical war crimes and post-war trials; 1 Unit 731 and the Japanese Imperial Army's biological warfare program; 2 Medicine-related war crimes trials and post-war politics and ethics: The unresolved case of Unit 731, Japan's bio-warfare program; 3 Research on humans at the Khabarovsk War Crimes Trial: A historical and ethical examination; Part II: Guilt and responsibility: Individuals and nations |
4 Data generated in Japan's biowarfare experiments on human victims in China, 1932-1945, and the ethics of using them5 Discovering traces of humanity: Taking individual responsibility for medical atrocities; 6 On the altar of nationalism and the nation-state: Japan's wartime |
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medical atrocities, the American cover-up, and postwar Chinese responses; Part III: Ethics and historical memory: Parallel lessons from Germany and the U.S.A.; 7 Bioethics and exceptionalism: A German example of learning from "medical" atrocities |
8 Racial hygienist Otmar von Verschuer, the Confessing Church, and comparative reflections on postwar rehabilitation9 America's memory problems: Diaspora groups, civil society and the perils of "chosen amnesia"; 10 Japanese and American war atrocities, historical memory, and reconciliation: The Asia-Pacific War to today; Part IV: Annotated bibliography and appendices; 11 Annotated bibliography: Primary sources and secondary liaturature in Japanese, Chinese, and English; Appendixes; Appendix A: The experiments conducted under the Third Reich and Imperial Japan and postwar use of such data |
Appendix B: The experiments conducted under the U.S. governmentIndex |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Prior to and during the Second World War, the Japanese Army established programs of biological warfare throughout China and elsewhere. In these "factories of death," including the now-infamous Unit 731, Japanese doctors and scientists conducted large numbers of vivisections and experiments on human beings, mostly Chinese nationals. However, as a result of complex historical factors including an American cover-up of the atrocities, Japanese denials, and inadequate responses from successive Chinese governments, justice has never been fully served. This volume brings together the contributions of |
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