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Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans
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Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans Paperback - 2000

by Moreno, Jonathan D

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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.

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Routledge, 2000-12-23. paperback. Very Good +/None as issued. 6x0x9. Brand new paperback copy from bookstore stock. Mild surface wear to cover, and sun fading on spine and back cover, otherwise in perfect condition. Books that sell for $9 or more ship in a box; under $9 in a bubble mailer. Expedited and international orders may ship in a flat rate envelope rather than a box due to cost constraints. All US-addressed items ship with complimentary delivery confirmation.
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  • Title Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans
  • Author Moreno, Jonathan D
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Condition Used - Very Good +
  • Pages 392
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, Florence, Kentucky, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-12-23
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # FC32302270049
  • ISBN 9780415928359 / 0415928354
  • Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.16 x 6.26 x 1.02 in (23.27 x 15.90 x 2.59 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Informed consent (Medical law) - United, Human experimentation in medicine - United
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00059140
  • Dewey Decimal Code 619

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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.

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  • Scitech Book News, 06/01/2001, Page 90

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).