Undue Risk

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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 children. It is also the first book to go behind the scenes and reveal the government's struggle with the ethics of human experimentation and the evolution of agonizing policy choices on unfamiliar moral terrain."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Weapons of mass destruction,  Informed consent (Medical law),  Testing,  United States,  Human experimentation in medicine,  Medical ethics,  Nuclear industry,  Politics and government,  Nuclear energy,  History,  New York Times reviewed,  Human experimentation in medicine, history,  Radiation victims,  Human Experimentation,  Fraud in science,  Biological warfare,  Chemical warfare,  Nuclear warfare,  Public Policy,  Scientific Misconduct,  Radiation,  Military Personnel,  History, 20th Century,  Expérimentation humaine en médecine,  Consentement éclairé (Droit médical),  Fraude scientifique,  Éthique médicale,  Guerre biologique,  Guerre chimique,  Guerre nucléaire,  Médecine,  Histoire,  Nuclear wars,  MEDICAL,  Ethics,  Nuclear weapons,  Nuclear physics,  Government policy,  History of Medicine, 20th Cent

Places: United States