Overview
- Reprints a seminal work in the history of medical ethics and human subject research that has been nearly unavailable for over 40 years
- Enlists experts in the history of medicine and human subject research to offer context for the original volume’s importance in the field
- Offers us a way to think about human subject experimentation in a time before mandated regulatory oversight
Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 134)
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Reprint of Second Edition of Human Guinea Pigs
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Front Matter
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Keywords
- human guinea pigs
- history of Kenneth Mellanby's work
- experimentation
- human subject research
- history of medicine
- conscientious objectors
- human subject experimentation
- the Nuremberg trials
- nazi medical experimentation
- Kenneth Mellanby
- philosophy of medicine
- experiments on conscientious objectors
- history of human subject research
- WWII experiments
About this book
This book reprints Human Guinea Pigs, by Kenneth Mellanby, a seminal work in the history of medical ethics and human subject research that has been nearly unavailable for over 40 years. Detailing the use of World War II conscientious objectors who volunteered for experimentation on scabies transmission, Mellanby’s book offers insight into one approach to human subject experimentation before the development of ethical oversight regulations. His work was initially published prior to the articulation of the Nuremberg Code, which makes his subsequent position as a reporter for the British Medical Journal at the Nuremberg Trials very interesting, particularly given his sometimes controversial opinions on Nazi medical experimentation. This book reprints the second edition together with commentary essays that situate Mellanby’s ethical approach in historical context and relative to contemporary approaches. This volume is of particular interest to scholars of the historyof human subject research.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Lisa M. Rasmussen earned her PhD in Philosophy (with a focus on bioethics) from Rice University ,and is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Factuly Fellow in the Graduate School at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. One of Dr. Rasmussen’s main research areas is research ethics, particularly research misconduct and federal regulatory approaches to ethical issues in research. She is presently working on a book manuscript on unregulated human subject research, and serves as Editor of the book series Philosophy and Medicine.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Guinea Pigs, by Kenneth Mellanby: A Reprint with Commentaries
Editors: Lisa M. Rasmussen
Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37697-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37696-3Published: 11 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37699-4Published: 11 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37697-0Published: 10 June 2020
Series ISSN: 0376-7418
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 214
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Bioethics, History of Medicine