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Science 28 January 2000:
Vol. 287. no. 5453, pp. 598 - 599
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5453.598

Books

BIOETHICS:
Knowledge to Heal, Knowledge to Injure

A review by M. Susan Lindee


Undue Risk Secret State Experiments on Humans
Jonathan Moreno
Freeman, New York, 1999. 367 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-7167-3142-8.

Moreno, a biomedical ethicist, offers a broad overview of the use of human subjects in scientific and military research in the United States since 1940. He aims to understand how (and why) scientists and administrators chose to expose people to things that could harm them.
The author is in the Department of History and Sociology of Science, 303 Logan Hall, University of Pennsylvania, 249 South 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304, USA. E-mail: mlindee{at}sas.upenn.edu

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