The origins of bioethics : remembering when medicine went wrong

The origins of bioethics : remembering when medicine went wrong /

"In this book, author John Lynch shows how three controversial experiments--the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the Willowbrook Hepatitis Study, and the Cincinnati Total Body Irradiation Study--have been remembered and forgotten, and why their memorialization or their erasure matters today"--

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Lynch, John (John Alexander), 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2019
Series:Rhetoric and public affairs series.
Subjects:
Memorialization > Moral and ethical aspects > United States > History.
Collective memory > Moral and ethical aspects > United States > History.
Medical ethics > United States > History.
Human experimentation in medicine > United States > Case studies.
Human experimentation in medicine > Moral and ethical aspects > United States > History.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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Summary:"In this book, author John Lynch shows how three controversial experiments--the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the Willowbrook Hepatitis Study, and the Cincinnati Total Body Irradiation Study--have been remembered and forgotten, and why their memorialization or their erasure matters today"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (xx, 228 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1609176170
9781609176174
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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