Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans

Moreno, Jonathan D.

ISBN 10: 113814617X / ISBN 13: 9781138146174

Published by Routledge, 2016

About this Item

Exploring the history of the use of human subjects in atomic, biological, and chemical warfare by the U. S. Government, the author reveals details and exposes policies and specific cases on this practice. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 730. . 2016. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113814617X
• ISBN 13: 9781138146174
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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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).