Japan's wartime medical atrocities : comparative inquiries in science, history, and ethics / edited by Jing-Bao Nie [and others].

London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

xviii, 249 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-230) and index.

Introduction: Medical atrocities, history and ethics / Arthur Kleinman, Jing-Bao Nie, and Mark Selden -- Unit 731 and the Japanese Imperial Army's biological warfare program / Tsuneishi Keiichi -- Medicine-related war crimes trials and post-war politics and ethics : the unresolved case of Unit 731, Japan's bio-warfare program / Suzy Wang -- Research on humans at the Khabarovsk War Crimes Trial : a historical and ethical examination / Boris G. Yudin -- 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 -- Bioethics and exceptionalism : a German example of learning from "medical" atrocities / Ole Döring -- Racial hygienist Otmar von Vershuer, the Confessing Church, and comparative reflections on postwar rehabilitation / Peter Degen -- America's memory problems : diaspora groups, civil society and the perils of "chosen amnesia" / David B. MacDonald -- Japanese and American war atrocities, historical memory, and reconciliation : the Asia-Pacific War to today / Mark Selden -- Annotated bibliography : primary sources and secondary literature in Japanese, Chinese and English / Nanyan Guo and Jing-Bao Nie -- Appendix A: The experiments conducted under the Third Reich and Imperial Japan and postwar use of such data / Suzy Wang -- Appendix B: The experiments conducted under the US government / Suzy Wang.