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Author Lynch, John (John Alexander), 1976- author.

Title The origins of bioethics : remembering when medicine went wrong / John A. Lynch
Published East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (xx, 228 pages) : illustrations
Series Rhetoric and public affairs series
Rhetoric and public affairs series.
Contents Bioethical memory and minimal remembrance -- Experiment or treatment? : histories of medical care, research, and regulation -- Lawsuits and legacies : competing memorializations of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study -- Minimal remembrance and the obligation to remember : official and vernacular memories of the Willowbrook State School -- Attempting to forget : the University of Cincinnati radiation studies
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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject 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
MEDICAL -- General.
Human experimentation in medicine
Human experimentation in medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects
Medical ethics
United States
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1609176170
9781609176174