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Japan's wartime medical atrocities : comparative inquiries in science, history, and ethics /

This volume brings together the contributions of a group of scholars from different countries and various academic disciplines. It examines Japan's wartime medical atrocities and their postwar aftermath from a comparative perspective and inquires into perennial issues of historical memory, scie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nie, Jing-Bao, 1962-
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Colección:Asia's transformations.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Medical atrocities, history and ethics / Arthur Kleinman, Jing-Bao Nie, and Mark Selden
  • Unit 731 and the Japanese Imperial Army's biological warfare program / Tsuneishi Keiichi
  • Medicine-related war crimes trials and post-war politics and ethics : the unresolved case of Unit 731, Japan's bio-warfare program / Suzy Wang
  • Research on humans at the Khabarovsk War Crimes Trial : a historical and ethical examination / Boris G. Yudin
  • Data generated in Japan's biowarfare experiments on human victims in China, 1932-1945, and the ethics of using them / Till Bärnighausen
  • Discovering traces of humanity : taking individual responsibility for medical atrocities / Nanyan Guo
  • On the altar of nationalism and the nation-state : Japan's wartime medical atrocities, the American cover-up, and postwar Chinese responses / Jing-Bao Nie
  • Bioethics and exceptionalism : a German example of learning from "medical" atrocities / Ole Döring
  • Racial hygienist Otmar von Vershuer, the Confessing Church, and comparative reflections on postwar rehabilitation / Peter Degen
  • America's memory problems : diaspora groups, civil society and the perils of "chosen amnesia" / David B. MacDonald
  • Japanese and American war atrocities, historical memory, and reconciliation : the Asia-Pacific War to today / Mark Selden
  • Annotated bibliography : primary sources and secondary literature in Japanese, Chinese and English / Nanyan Guo and Jing-Bao Nie
  • Appendix A: The experiments conducted under the Third Reich and Imperial Japan and postwar use of such data / Suzy Wang
  • Appendix B: The experiments conducted under the US government / Suzy Wang.