Human guinea pigs, by Kenneth Mellanby : a reprint with commentaries / Lisa M. Rasmussen, editor.
"This book reprints Human Guinea Pigs, by Kenneth Mellanby, a seminal work in the history of medical ethics and human subject research that has been nearly unavailable for over 40 years. Detailing the use of World War II conscientious objectors who volunteered for experimentation on scabies tr...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Springer Nature,
[2020]
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| Series: | Philosophy and medicine ;
v. 134. |
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2020 English/International |
| Summary: | "This book reprints Human Guinea Pigs, by Kenneth Mellanby, a seminal work in the history of medical ethics and human subject research that has been nearly unavailable for over 40 years. Detailing the use of World War II conscientious objectors who volunteered for experimentation on scabies transmission, Mellanby’s book offers insight into one approach to human subject experimentation before the development of ethical oversight regulations. His work was initially published prior to the articulation of the Nuremberg Code, which makes his subsequent position as a reporter for the British Medical Journal at the Nuremberg Trials very interesting, particularly given his sometimes controversial opinions on Nazi medical experimentation. This book reprints the second edition together with commentary essays that situate Mellanby’s ethical approach in historical context and relative to contemporary approaches. This volume is of particular interest to scholars of the history of human subject research."--Publisher's website. |
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| Item Description: | "Foreword" signed in print (page xi): Rob Dunn. Includes five "Commentary essays", by Robert Baker, Ana S. Iltis, Alastair V. Campbell, Joseph S. Brown/Toby Schonfeld, and Lisa M. Rasmussen. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 214 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 3030376974 9783030376970 3030376966 9783030376963 |
| ISSN: | 0376-7418 ; |