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Undue riskJonathan D. Moreno

Undue risk

1999368 pages
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"In Undue Risk, Moreno presents the first comprehensive history of the use of human subjects in atomic, biological, and chemical warfare experiments from World War II to the twenty-first century. From the courtrooms of Nuremberg to the battlefields of the Gulf War, Undue Risk explores a variety of government policies and specific cases, including plutonium injections into unwitting hospital patients, U.S. government attempts to recruit Nazi medical scientists, the subjection of soldiers to atomic blast fallout, secret LSD and mescaline studies, and the feeding of irradiated oatmeal to…

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10 editions
  • Other · English · 2016
    Taylor & Francis Group · 368 pages · 9781138146174
  • Other · English · 2013
    Routledge · 9781299610811
  • Other · English · 2013
    Taylor & Francis Group · 368 pages · 9781136605512
  • Other · English · 2013
    Taylor & Francis Group · 368 pages · 9781136605536
  • Other · English · 2013
    Taylor & Francis Group · 368 pages · 9780203388464
  • Other · English · 2013
    Taylor & Francis Group · 368 pages · 9781136605505
Weapons of mass destructionInformed consent (Medical law)TestingUnited StatesHuman experimentation in medicineMedical ethicsNuclear industryPolitics and government