Introduction: the knowledge tree and its double fruit / William R. LaFleur

Rationalizing unethical medical research: taking seriously the case of Viktor von Weizsäcker / Gernot Böhme

Medical research, morality, and Viktor von Weizsäcker / Gernot Böhme

Medical research, morality, and history: the German journal Ethik and the limits of human experimentation / Andreas Frewer

Experimentation on humans and informed consent: how we arrived where we are / Rolf Winau

The silence of the scholars / Benno Müller-Hill

The ethics of evil: the challenge and the lessons of Nazi medical experiments / Arthur L. Caplan

Unit 731 and the human skulls discovered in 1989: physicians carrying out organized crimes / Kei-ichi Tsuneishi

Biohazard: unit 731 in postwar Japanese politics of national "forgetfulness" / Frederick R. Dickinson

Biological weapons: the United States and the Korean War / G. Cameron Hurst III

Experimental injury: wound ballistics and aviation medicine in mid-century America / Susan Lindee

Stumbling toward bioethics: human experiments policy and the early Cold War / Jonathan D. Moreno

Toward an ethics of Iatrogenesis / Renée C. Fox

Strategies for survival versus accepting impermanence: rationalizing brain death and organ transplantation today / Tetsuo Yamaori

The age of a "revolutionized human body" and the right to die / Yoshihiko Komatsu

Why we must be prudent in research using human embryos: differing views of human dignity / Susumu Shimazono

Eugenics, reproductive technologies, and the feminist dilemma in Japan / Miho Ogino

Refusing utopia's bait: research, rationalizations, and Hans Jonas / William R. LaFleur.