Loading…

The origins of bioethics : remembering when medicine went wrong /

"In this book, author John Lynch shows how three controversial experiments--the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the Willowbrook Hepatitis Study, and the Cincinnati Total Body Irradiation Study--have been remembered and forgotten, and why their memorialization or their erasure matters today"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lynch, John (John Alexander), 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2019]
Series:Rhetoric and public affairs series.
Subjects:
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Bioethical memory and minimal remembrance
  • Experiment or treatment? : histories of medical care, research, and regulation
  • Lawsuits and legacies : competing memorializations of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
  • Minimal remembrance and the obligation to remember : official and vernacular memories of the Willowbrook State School
  • Attempting to forget : the University of Cincinnati radiation studies.