Japan's Wartime Medical Atrocities

Comparative Inquiries in Science, History, and Ethics
Herausgeber: Nie, Jing Bao; Selden, Mark; Guo, Nanyan

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines Japan's wartime medical atrocities and their postwar aftermath from a comparative perspective and inquires into perennial issues of historical memory, science, politics, society and ethics elicited by these rebarbative events.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 159mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9780415682282
• ISBN-10: 0415682282
• Artikelnr.: 33608294

Autorenporträt

Jing-Bao Nie is an Associate Professor at the Bioethics Centre, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand, and honorary adjunct professor at Hunan Normal and Peking Universities, China. Nanyan Guo is an Associate Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan. Mark Selden is a Research Associate in the East Asia Program at Cornell University, USA and a coordinator of The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. Arthur Kleinman is the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Medical Anthropology and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Medical Atrocities, History and Ethics Arthur Kleinman,
Jing-Bao Nie and Mark Selden Part I: Japan's Medical War Crimes and
Post-War Trials 1. Unit 731 and the Japanese Imperial Army's Biological
Warfare Program Tsuneishi Keiichi 2. The Legacies and Implications of
Medicine-Related War Crimes Trials and Post-War Politics Suzy Wang 3.
Research on Humans at the Khabarovsk War Crimes Trial: An Historical and
Ethical Examination Boris G. Yudin 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 Them. Till
Bärnighausen 5. Discovering Traces of Humanity: Taking Individual
Responsibility for Medical Atrocities Nanyan Guo 6. 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 Part III:
Ethics and Historical Memory: Parallel Lessons from Germany and USA 7.
Bioethics and Exceptionalism: A German Example of Learning from Medical
Atrocities Ole Döring 8. The Racial Hygienist Otmar von Verschuer's
Relation with the Confessing Church and His Post-War Rehabilitation Peter
Degen 9. America's Memory Problems: Diaspora, Civil Society and the Perils
of "Chosen Amnesia" David B. MacDonald 10. Japanese and American War
Atrocities, Historical Memory and Reconciliation Mark Selden Part IV:
Annotated Bibliography 11. Annotated Bibliography: Primary Sources and
Secondary Literature in Japanese, Chinese and English Nanyan Guo and
Jing-Bao Nie Appendices Suzy Wang