{"id":4781,"date":"2014-03-01T01:10:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T09:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4781"},"modified":"2023-01-22T16:33:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T00:33:40","slug":"u-s-responses-to-japanese-wartime-inhuman-experimentation-after-world-war-ii-national-security-and-wartime-exigency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4781","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Responses to Japanese Wartime Inhuman Experimentation after World War II: National Security and Wartime Exigency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Howard Brody, Sarah E. Leonard, Jing-Bao Nie, Paul Weindling<\/h4>\n\n\n
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In 1945\u201346, representatives of the U.S. government made similar discoveries in both Germany and Japan, unearthing evidence of unethical experiments on human beings that could be viewed as war crimes. The outcomes in the two defeated nations, however, were strikingly different. In Germany, the United States, influenced by the Canadian physician John Thompson, played a key role in bringing Nazi physicians to trial and publicizing their misdeeds. In Japan, the United States played an equally key role in concealing information about the biological warfare experiments and in securing immunity from prosecution for the perpetrators. The greater force of appeals to national security and wartime exigency help to explain these different outcomes.
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Brody H, Leonard SE, Nie J-B, Weindling P. U.S. Responses to Japanese Wartime Inhuman Experimentation after World War II: National Security and Wartime Exigency. <\/a>Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics \/ Volume 23 \/ Issue 02 \/ April 2014, pp 220-230<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Howard Brody, Sarah E. Leonard, Jing-Bao Nie, Paul Weindling AbstractIn 1945\u201346, representatives of the U.S. government made similar discoveries in both Germany and Japan, unearthing evidence of unethical experiments on human beings that could be viewed as war crimes. The outcomes in the two defeated nations, however, were strikingly different. 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