The origins of bioethics: remembering when medicine went wrong

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Theory and History of Bioethical Memory -- Chapter 1. Bioethical Memory and Minimal Remembrance -- Chapter 2. Experiment or Treatment? Histories of Medical Care, Research, and Regulation -- Part 2. Cases of Bioethical Memory and Minimal Remembrance -- Chapter 3. Lawsuits and Legacies: Competing Memorializations of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study -- Chapter 4. Minimal Remembrance and the Obligation to Remember: Official and Vernacular Memories of the Willowbrook State School -- Chapter 5. Attempting to Forget: The University of Cincinnati Radiation Studies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

"In this book, author John Lynch shows how three controversial experiments--the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the Willowbrook Hepatitis Study, and the Cincinnati Total Body Irradiation Study--have been remembered and forgotten, and why their memorialization or their erasure matters today"--

Bioethical memory and minimal remembrance -- Experiment or treatment? : histories of medical care, research, and regulation -- Lawsuits and legacies : competing memorializations of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study -- Minimal remembrance and the obligation to remember : official and vernacular memories of the Willowbrook State School -- Attempting to forget : the University of Cincinnati radiation studies.