Dark Medicine: Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research

CONTRIBUTORS

Contributors Gernot Böhme is founder and Director of the Institut für Praxis der Philosophie and prior to that was Professor of Philosophy at the Technical University of Darmstadt. His studies of mathematics, physics, and philosophy were at the Max-Planck-Institute for Research in the Conditions of Life in the Scienti¤cTechnical World in Starnberg, whose directors were C. F. von Weizsäcker and Jürgen Habermas. The primary foci of his research are classical philosophy, Plato, Kant, the Sociology of Science, Philosophical Anthropology, Aesthetics , Ethics, Goethe, and Theories of Time. He is author and editor of more than forty works in German, including Leibsein als Aufgabe: Leibphilosophie in pragmatischer Hinsicht. Among Böhme’s publications in English are Coping with Science and Ethics in Context: The Art of Dealing with Serious Questions. He contributes regularly to Europe’s public media, held the distinguished JanTinbergen -Professorship at the University of Rotterdam in 1985–1986, and received the Denkbar-Award for Obliques Denken in 2002. Arthur L. Caplan is the Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics, Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics, and Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He served on President Clinton’s Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illnesses. Caplan is author or editor of twenty-¤ve books and over ¤ve hundred papers—on the ethics of medical experimentation, IVF, organ transplantation, and the costs of health care. His edited works include When Medicine Went Mad: Bioethics and the Holocaust; Health, Disease and Illness; The Case of Terri Schiavo: Ethics at the End of Life and among the books he has authored are Due Consideration: Controversy in the Age of Medical Miracle; Am I My Brother’s Keeper? The Ethical Frontiers of Biomedicine; If I Were a Rich Man Could I Buy a Pancreas? and Smart Mice, Not So Smart People. Frederick R. Dickinson is Associate Professor of Japanese History at the University of Pennsylvania. Born in Tokyo and raised in Kanazawa and Kyoto, Japan , he holds an M. A. and Ph.D. in History from Yale University and an M. A. in International Politics from Kyoto University. He is author of War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914–1919 and “Dai-ichiji taisengo no Nihon no koso: Nihon ni okeru Uirusonshugi no juyo,” in Niju seiki Higashi Ajia no chitsujo keisei to Nihon, edited by Yukio Ito and Minoru Kawada. Dickinson has received grants from the Japanese Ministry of Education, the Fulbright Commission, and the Japan Foundation. He was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University (2000–2001) and has held visiting pro- fessorships at Swarthmore College, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, and Kyoto University. His current research focuses on Japanese political and cultural reconstruction following the Great War, 1919–1931. Renée C. Fox, a sociologist of medicine, is the Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a Research Associate at Queen Elizabeth House at the University of Oxford. Among her books are Experiment Perilous: Physicians and Patients Facing the Unknown and The Sociology of Medicine: A Participant Observer’s View. The Courage to Fail: A Social View of Organ Transplants and Dialysis and Spare Parts: Organ Replacement in American Society were both coauthored with Judith P. Swazey. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fox holds nine honorary degrees, is a recipient of the Centennial Medal from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University, and been named a Chevalier of the Order of Leopold II by the government of Belgium. Andreas Frewer, a Professor at the Institute for History, Ethics, and Philosophy of Medicine at Hanover Medical School since 2002, studied medicine, philosophy , and the history of medicine in Munich, Erlangen, Oxford, Jerusalem, and Berlin. His Ph.D. is from the Free University of Berlin, and he has a Masters in Bioethics from the University of Leuven. He earlier held a position at the University of Göttingen and served as temporary director of the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt. Among his publications are the books Medizin und Moral in Weimarer Republik und Nationalsozialismus : Die Zeitschrift “Ethik” unter Emil Abderhalden and Bibliotheca Sudhof¤ana, as well as several publications on euthanasia, on research ethics, and on the historical and...