Title Japan's wartime medical atrocities : comparative inquiries in science, history, and ethics / edited by Jing-Bao Nie [and others]

Published London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 249 pages) Series Asia's transformations Asia's transformations. Contents Medical atrocities, history and ethics / Arthur Kleinman, Jing-Bao Nie, and Mark Selden -- Unit 731 and the Japanese Imperial Army's biological warfare program / Tsuneishi Keiichi -- The legacies and implications of medicine-related war crimes trials and post-war politics / Suzy Wang -- Research on humans at the Khabarovsk war crimes trial : an historical and ethical examination / Boris G. Yudin -- Data generated in Japan's biowarfare experiments on human victims in China, 1932-1945, and the ethics of using them / Till Bärnighausen -- Discovering traces of humanity : taking individual responsibility for medical atrocities / Nanyan Guo -- 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 -- Bioethics and exceptionalism : a German example of learning from medical atrocities / Ole Döring -- The racial hygienist Otmar von Vershuer's relation with the Confessing Church and his post-war rehabilitation / Peter Degen -- America's memory problems : diaspora, civil society, and the perils of "chosen amnesia" / David B. MacDonald -- Japanese and American war atrocities, historical memory, and reconciliation / Mark Selden Summary Prior to and during the Second World War, the Japanese Army established programs of biological warfare throughout China and elsewhere. In these "factories of death," including the now-infamous Unit 731, Japanese doctors and scientists conducted large numbers of vivisections and experiments on human beings, mostly Chinese nationals. However, as a result of complex historical factors including an American cover-up of the atrocities, Japanese denials, and inadequate responses from successive Chinese governments, justice has never been fully served. This volume brings together the contributions of a group of scholars from different countries and various academic disciplines. It 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. The volume's central ethical claim is that the failure to bring justice to bear on the systematic abuse of medical research by Japanese military medical personnel more than six decades ago has had a profoundly retarding influence on the development and practice of medical and social ethics in all of East Asia. The book also includes an extensive annotated bibliography selected from relevant publications in Japanese, Chinese and English Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record SUBJECT Japan Rikugun. Kantōgun. Butai, Dai 731 Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Japan World War, 1939-1945 -- Biological warfare -- Japan World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- China Human experimentation in medicine -- Japan -- History -- 20th century Human experimentation in medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects War crimes -- History -- 20th century War crime trials -- History -- 20th century Human Experimentation -- ethics War Crimes -- history Biological Warfare -- history History, 20th Century World War II HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. Atrocities Biological warfare Human experimentation in medicine Human experimentation in medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects War crime trials War crimes Kriegsverbrechen. Menschenversuch. Biologischer Krieg. Medicinska experiment på människor -- sociala aspekter -- Japan. Krigsförbrytelser -- historia -- Japan. SUBJECT China Japan Subject China Japan Japan. Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book Author Nie, Jing-Bao, 1962- ISBN 9781136952609 1136952608 9781136952593 1136952594 1282898655 9781282898653 9786612898655 6612898658

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