Human Guinea Pigs By Kenneth Mellanby A Reprint With Commentaries

Author : Lisa M. Rasmussen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030376970

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Human Guinea Pigs, by Kenneth Mellanby: A Reprint with Commentaries by Lisa M. Rasmussen Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Baker
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780262377409

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Making Modern Medical Ethics by Robert Baker Pdf

The little-known stories of the people responsible for what we know today as modern medical ethics. In Making Modern Medical Ethics, Robert Baker tells the counter history of the birth of bioethics, bringing to the fore the stories of the dissenters and whistleblowers who challenged the establishment. Drawing on his earlier work on moral revolutions and the history of medical ethics, Robert Baker traces the history of modern medical ethics and its bioethical turn to the moral insurrections incited by the many unsung dissenters and whistleblowers: African American civil rights leaders, Jewish Americans harboring Holocaust memories, feminists, women, and Anglo-American physicians and healthcare professionals who were veterans of the World Wars, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. The standard narrative for bioethics typically emphasizes the morally disruptive medical technologies of the latter part of the twentieth century, such as the dialysis machine, the electroencephalograph, and the ventilator, as they created the need to reconsider traditional notions of medical ethics. Baker, however, tells a fresh narrative, one that has historically been neglected (e.g., the story of the medical veterans who founded an international medical organization to rescue medicine and biomedical research from the scandal of Nazi medicine), and also reveals the penalties that moral change agents paid (e.g., the stubborn bureaucrat who was demoted for her insistence on requiring and enforcing research subjects’ informed consent). Analyzing major statements of modern medical ethics from the 1946–1947 Nuremberg Doctors Trials and Nuremberg Code to A Patient’s Bill of Rights, Making Modern Medical Ethics is a winning history of just how respect and autonomy for patients and research subjects came to be codified.

Author : Stacy Gallin,Ira Bedzow
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031019876

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Bioethics and the Holocaust by Stacy Gallin,Ira Bedzow Pdf

This open access book offers a framework for understanding how the Holocaust has shaped and continues to shape medical ethics, health policy, and questions related to human rights around the world. The field of bioethics continues to face questions of social and medical controversy that have their roots in the lessons of the Holocaust, such as debates over beginning-of-life and medical genetics, end-of-life matters such as medical aid in dying, the development of ethical codes and regulations to guide human subject research, and human rights abuses in vulnerable populations. As the only example of medically sanctioned genocide in history, and one that used medicine and science to fundamentally undermine human dignity and the moral foundation of society, the Holocaust provides an invaluable framework for exploring current issues in bioethics and society today. This book, therefore, is of great value to all current and future ethicists, medical practitioners and policymakers – as well as laypeople.

Author : Tomas Zima,David N. Weisstub
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031126925

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Medical Research Ethics: Challenges in the 21st Century by Tomas Zima,David N. Weisstub Pdf

This book provides a current review of Medical Research Ethics on a global basis. The book contains chapters that are historically and philosophically reflective and aimed to promote a discussion about controversial and foundational aspects in the field. An elaborate group of chapters concentrates on key areas of medical research where there are core ethical issues that arise both in theory and practice: genetics, neuroscience, surgery, palliative care, diagnostics, risk and prediction, security, pandemic threats, finances, technology, and public policy.This book is suitable for use from the most basic introductory courses to the highest levels of expertise in multidisciplinary contexts. The insights and research by this group of top scholars in the field of bioethics is an indispensable read for medical students in bioethics seminars and courses as well as for philosophy of bioethics classes in departments of philosophy, nursing faculties, law schools where bioethics is linked to medical law, experts in comparative law and public health, international human rights, and is equally useful for policy planning in pharmaceutical companies.

Author : Errol Craig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Scabies
ISBN : 9780192848406

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The Itch by Errol Craig Pdf

Scabies is a parasitic disease caused by the human itch mite Sarcoptes scabiei, which burrows through the skin leading to an intensely itchy rash. The scabies mite, which is just smaller than can be visualized by the naked eye (to most), mates and lays eggs in the human skin which hatch and mature, thereby propagating its life cycle. A diagnosis of scabies causes many patients anxiety and consternation. The Itch: Scabies details the essential clinic details of scabies - what it is, how to diagnose it, how to treat it, and examines common pitfalls in its recognition and cure. The methods of transmission of scabies and its level of contagiousness are also discussed in detail. Accounts of scabies date back to antiquity; this book reveals a history which is replete with medical and scientific missteps. The scabies mite was in fact the first infectious organism to ever be discovered, which represents a underrecognized landmark in the development of modern medicine. In spite of this, however, because it cannot be easily studied in the lab, our current knowledge of scabies is somewhat limited. Much of our current clinical understanding of scabies derives from a most unusual set of human experiments performed on conscientious objectors by Kenneth Mellanby in Britain during World War II. Through its use of clinical vignettes and images, this book brings the fascinating story of scabies to light and will be of interest to medical practitioners, historians of medicine, and the general public alike.

Author : Klaus Rose
Publisher : Ethics International Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781804411360

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Abuse of Minors in Clinical Studies by Klaus Rose Pdf

With the emergence of effective drugs and observed drug toxicities in babies, two mantras emerged: that children are therapeutic orphans, and that children are not small adults. US and EU laws demand pediatric studies as a condition for the approval of new drugs in adults. This is called “Pediatric Drug Development” (PDD). Although apparently reasonable, there are catches. Children are vulnerable at birth, but they grow and become bodily mature with puberty, well before coming of age. Minors are not another species. The 18th birthday, an administrative/ legal limit, does not correspond to a physiological change. Drugs treat the body, not the legal status. PDD results in pointless studies in bodily mature adolescents, and in exaggerated studies in younger minors. An originally well-intentioned concept results in thousands of questionable studies worldwide. This book draws attention to conflicts of interest and ethical dilemmas of PDD and questions its applicability for adolescents and minors that are no longer babies.

Author : Kenneth Mellanby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Medicine
ISBN : 0850361842

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Human Guinea Pigs by Kenneth Mellanby Pdf

Author : Alan E. Kazdin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 821 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781108838788

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Research Design in Clinical Psychology by Alan E. Kazdin Pdf

Fully revised and updated, this text offers a comprehensive guide to research methods and research design in clinical psychology.

Author : M. H. Pappworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1247568126

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Human Guinea Pigs by M. H. Pappworth Pdf

Author : Kenneth Mellanby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Conscientious objectors
ISBN : UOM:39015000799521

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Human Guinea Pigs by Kenneth Mellanby Pdf

Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : English imprints
ISBN : PSU:000030000971

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General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955 by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books Pdf

Author : R.D. Semba
Publisher : Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783318021899

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The Vitamin A Story by R.D. Semba Pdf

This book shows how vitamin A deficiency – before the vitamin was known to scientists – affected millions of people throughout history. It is a story of sailors and soldiers, penniless mothers, orphaned infants, and young children left susceptible to blindness and fatal infections. We also glimpse the fortunate ones who, with ample vitamin A-rich food, escaped this elusive stalker. Why were people going blind and dying? To unravel this puzzle, scientists around the world competed over the course of a century. Their persistent efforts led to the identification of vitamin A and its essential role in health. As a primary focus of today’s international public health efforts, vitamin A has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. But, we discover, they could save many more were it not for obstacles erected by political and ideological zealots who lack a historical perspective of the problem. Although exhaustively researched and documented, this book is written for intellectually curious lay readers as well as for specialists. Public health professionals, nutritionists, and historians of science and medicine have much to learn from this book about the cultural and scientific origins of their disciplines. Likewise, readers interested in military and cultural history will learn about the interaction of health, society, science, and politics. The author’s presentation of vitamin A deficiency is likely to become a classic case study of health disparities in the past as well as the present.

Author : Ivan Illich
Publisher : Marion Boyars
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0714529931

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Limits to Medicine by Ivan Illich Pdf

The medical establishment has become a major threat to health, says Ivan Illich. He outlines the causes of iatrogenic diseases.

Author : M. H. Pappworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1247568126

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Human Guinea Pigs by M. H. Pappworth Pdf

Author : N. W. Lepp
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401173391

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Effect of Heavy Metal Pollution on Plants by N. W. Lepp Pdf

Trace metals occur as natural constituents of the earth's crust, and are ever present constituents of soils, natural waters and living matter. The biological significance of this disparate assemblage of elements has gradually been uncovered during the twentieth century; the resultant picture is one of ever-increasing complexity. Several of these elements have been demonstrated to be essential to the functions of living organisms, others appear to only interact with living matter in a toxic manner, whilst an ever-decreasing number do not fall conveniently into either category. When the interactions between trace metals and plants are considered, one must take full account of the known chemical properties of each element. Consideration must be given to differences in chemical reactivity, solubility and to interactions with other inorganic and organic molecules. A clear understanding of the basic chemical properties of an element of interest is an essential pre-requisite to any subsequent consideration of its biological significance. Due consideration to basic chemical considerations is a theme which runs through the collection of chapters in both volumes.