Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans

Jonathan D. Moreno

Routledge, Jun 22, 2016 - History - 396 pages

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 Deciding Together: Bioethics and Moral Consensus (1995), Ethics in Clinical Practice (1999), and Arguing Euthanasia (1995).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans
• Author: Jonathan D. Moreno
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Routledge, 2016
• ISBN: 113814617X, 9781138146174
• Length: 396 pages
• Subjects: History / Military / Weapons; History / Modern / 20th Century / General; History / United States / 20th Century; Medical / Ethics; Medical / General; Medical / Laboratory Medicine; Medical / Public Health; Medical / Research; Political Science / American Government / General; Social Science / Conspiracy Theories; Social Science / Sociology / General