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When the vast wartime factories of the Manhattan Project began producing plutonium in quantities never before seen on earth, scientists working on the top-secret bomb-building program grew apprehensive. Fearful that plutonium might cause a cancer epidemic among workers and desperate to learn more about what it could do to the human body, the Manhattan Project's medical doctors embarked upon an experiment in which eighteen unsuspecting patients
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"Is chocolate heart-healthy? Does yogurt prevent type 2 diabetes? Do pomegranates help cheat death? News accounts bombard us with such ... claims, report them as science, and influence what we eat ... Marion Nestle [believes that] these studies are more about marketing than science: they are often paid for by companies that sell those foods"--
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"Science is a force for good in the world--at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn't everything, it's the only thing--no matter the cost. Bestselling author Sam Kean tells the true story of what happens when unfettered ambition pushes otherwise rational men and women to cross the line in the name of science, trampling ethical...
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"The Ethics of Medical Testing: Modern Medical Testing Is Shaped by a Troubled Legacy; Strict Guidelines Ensure Safe and Ethical Medical testing on Humans; Medical Testing on Humans Can Be Dangerous and Corrupt; Review Boards Are Inadequate to Ensure Ethical Medical Testing; Medical Testing on Prisoners Is Unethical and Should Be Outlawed; Medical Testing on Prisoners Can Be Done Ethically; Medical Testing on Children Involves Unique Considerations;...
17) Stem cells
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Examines stem cells and the research that may one day be used to cure diseases and heal injuries.
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This program discusses the importance of ethics in research and presents an overview of research studies that have raised ethical issues, including Milgram's obedience study, the Tuskegee studies, and Zimbardo's prison study. The program looks at such elements of ethical research as informed consent, right to privacy, right to withdraw, and debriefing.
19) Stem cells
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This book is a collection of articles in which authors debate the ethical and moral questions surrounding stem cell research, the role of the government in stem cell research, and what alternatives might be acceptable to embryonic stem cells.