Dark Medicine: Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research

The trial of the "German doctors" exposed atrocities of Nazi medical science and led to the Nuremberg Code governing human experimentation. In Japan, Unit 731 carried out hideous experiments on captured Chinese and downed American pilots. In the United States, stories linger of biological experimentation during the Korean War. Dark Medicine looks at the sinister medical research conducted during and after World War II. The book describes this research, how it was brought to light, and the rationalizations of those who perpetrated and benefited from it. It looks at the response to the revelations of this horrific research and its implications for present-day medicine and ethics. Finally, it offers lessons about human experimentation in an age of human embryo research and genetic engineering.