Making Modern Medical Ethics How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whistleblowing Moralists Created Bioethics

Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
Chronology of Events Referenced xvii
Acronyms, Jargon, and Non-English Words xxv
Who’s Who: People Referenced xxix

1 Moralists and True Scandals: Medical Ethics during the Pre- and Interwar Periods 1
2 Nazi Medical Ethics 11
3 The Nuremberg Doctors Trial and the Nuremberg Code 23
4 The Declaration of Geneva: Old Things Become New 37
5 The Declaration of Helsinki: Negotiating Practical Principles for Research on Human Subjects 53
6 Kelsey, Pappworth, and Beecher: Moral Awakenings 63
7 Protesting the USPHS’s Syphilis Study: Gibson, Schatz, Buxtun, and Jenkins 103
8 Scientistic Medical Paternalism and Its Discontents 125
9 Reforming Modern Medical Ethics 145
10 The Bioethical Turn in Modern Medical Ethics 163
11 Making the Unseen Visible: A Metahistorical Analysis of Why the Role of Anti-Nazism and the Names of Significant Blacks, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Most Whistleblowing Moralists Are Absent from, or Minimally Noted in, Standard Histories of Bioethics 191

Epilogue 207
Appendix 217
Notes 229
Bibliography 277
Index 301