{"product_id":"the-origins-of-bioethics-john-a-lynch-9781611863413","title":"The Origins of Bioethics: Remembering When Medicine Went Wrong","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Origins of Bioethics \u003c\/i\u003eargues that what we remember from the history of medicine and how we remember it are consequential for the identities of doctors, researchers, and patients in the present day. Remembering when medicine went wrong calls people to account for the injustices inflicted on vulnerable communities across the twentieth century in the name of medicine, but the very groups empowered to create memorials to these events often have a vested interest in minimizing their culpability for them. Sometimes these groups bury this past and forget events when medical research harmed those it was supposed to help. The call to bioethical memory then conflicts with a desire for \"minimal remembrance\" on the part of institutions and governments. \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of Bioethics\u003c\/i\u003e charts this tension between bioethical memory and minimal remembrance across three cases--the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the Willowbrook Hepatitis Study, and the Cincinnati Whole Body Radiation Study--that highlight the shift from robust bioethical memory to minimal remembrance to forgetting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John a. Lynch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1611863414\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781611863413\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Michigan State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2020","brand":"John a. Lynch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43938792210687,"sku":"9781611863413","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a8b1d20d-0966-4ff0-a141-fa749b3bbd0e.jpg?v=1681437745","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-origins-of-bioethics-john-a-lynch-9781611863413","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}