Japan's wartime medical atrocities : comparative inquiries in science, history, and ethics / / edited by Jing-Bao Nie ... [et al.]

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, NY, : Routledge, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.54/050952
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Altri autori: NieJing-Bao <1962->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Japan's wartime medical atrocities
• ISBN: 1-136-95259-4; 1-136-95260-8; 1-282-89865-5; 9786612898655; 0-203-84904-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807105003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Asia's transformations.