Undue Risk

Moreno, Jonathan D. D.

ISBN 10: 0415928354 / ISBN 13: 9780415928359

Published by Routledge, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Undue Risk
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415928354
• ISBN 13: 9780415928359
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

About this title

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.

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).