| Contents |
Introduction: Medical atrocities, history and ethics / Arthur Kleinman, Jing-Bao Nie, and Mark Selden -- pt. 1. Japan's medical war crimes and post-war trials -- Unit 731 and the Japanese Imperial Army's biological warfare program / Tsuneishi Keiichi -- The legacies and implications of medicine-related war crimes trials and post-war politics / Suzy Wang -- Research on humans at the Khabarovsk war crimes trial : an historical and ethical examination / Boris G. Yudin -- pt. 2. Guilt and responsibility : individuals and nations -- Data generated in Japan's biowarfare experiments on human victims in China, 1932-1945, and the ethics of using them / Till Bärnighausen -- Discovering traces of humanity : taking individual responsibility for medical atrocities / Nanyan Guo -- On the altar of nationalism and the nation-state : Japan's wartime medical atrocities, the American cover-up, and postwar Chinese responses / Jing-Bao Nie -- pt. 3. Ethics and historical memory : parallel lessons from Germany and USA -- Bioethics and exceptionalism : a German example of learning from medical atrocities / Ole Döring -- The racial hygienist Otmar von Vershuer's relation with the Confessing Church and his post-war rehabilitation / Peter Degen -- America's memory problems : diaspora, civil society, and the perils of "chosen amnesia" / David B. MacDonald -- Japanese and American war atrocities, historical memory, and reconciliation / Mark Selden. |
