Download Undue Risk 9780415928359 Medicine Health Science Books

Product details Paperback 392 pages Publisher Routledge; 1 edition (December 24, 2000) Language English ISBN-10 0415928354

Undue Risk 9780415928359 Medicine Health Science Books Reviews

• About 20 years ago I decided to start collecting the occasional news articles I might happen upon that had to do with exposing secret human experimentation by the US Govt (usually exposed by either a successful lawsuit or a Federal employee entrusted to destroy classified documents but who instead smuggles them out for release). There was no internet then, so newspapers were my only source. I compiled a file approx. 4 inches thick. From all of this, I concluded that one is much more at risk to be experimented on (non-consensual) if you are military (especially Army, but also to some extent the Air Force and Navy), or if you go to a hospital while indigent, not having health insurance (most hospitals get Fed funding, so strings may be attached). I have never found any instance of anyone wealthy, or socially prominent, having been experimented on.
  I concluded from my own files that you are most at risk if you are indigent or low income folks going to a Fed funded hospital or clinic, as well as military (especially Army).
  The USA still is quite aggressive toward its end goal of world domination, so experiments on humans that could lead to innovations in covert assassinations, or weapons of mass destruction, or even mind control will continue. The author of UNDUE RISK states, "If there is a single lesson to be gleaned from the story of military-medical human experiments, it is that we can expect them to continue in the future...."
• Dr. Moreno's book provides a good overview of unethical human experimentation including Nazi human experimentation and the subsequent recruitment of Nazi Scientists via Operation Paperclip and their assimilation into our U.S. military / defense / intelligence agencies following World War II. One of the most famous was Wernher von Braun, a leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany, where he was a member of the Nazi Party and the SS. Following World War II, he was recruited by the United States, where he became the first Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center. Dr. Moreno highlights how the Nuremburg Code came about; the evolution of written informed consent and its difficult adoption; and provides examples of unethical human experimentation particularly the radiation experiments and much more.
  
  If I could offer a criticism it would the shortage of details on the extent of Project MKULTRA and related projects, which were much more than just LSD experiments. Though then director of the C.I.A. ordered MKULTRA documentation destroyed there was some surviving documentation which Dr. Colin Ross based his book C.I.A. Doctors on. Additionally, Dr. Moreno didn't touch on current reports of ongoing non-consensual human experimentation and the loopholes in the existing regulations for the Protection of Human Subjects (title 45 Part 46 / the Common Rule [subpart A]). Additionally, information on "non-lethal" weapons testing, neurotechnologies and other current research wasn't really touched upon. Maybe a future book will provide more information.
• In spite of books like this, or shows like Declassified Human Experimentation, thousands still live in innocent bliss thinking their elected officials, and thousands of unelected bureaucrats beneath them, would never do anything unethical or to hurt them.
  
  News Flash It has happened, happened repeatedly and is probably happening right now.
  
  While never approaching the horror of Nazi or Japanese experiments, many thousands here were unknowningly exposed to, or unsed, in experiments involving radiation, nuclear material, drugs and bio-agents. Will these revelations from history make people vigilant? I hope so, because in the secret corridors of Washington, do you think they are going to change their ways? That no one is going to cross the line? If you do, you must live on a different planet. Don't let history repeat itself.
  
  See also Yellow Dirt and Lab 257.
• I purchased this book to accompany research for a project affiliated with a Coursera class I was taking. The class had covered a number of the human experiments, but nowhere near as many as this book did. It is an eye-opener, and frightening, and yet one of those things where you feel like, "Wow, not surprised, but wow....REALLY?" Honestly, I cannot believe more people don't know of the cases in this book. Important reading for every citizen, I'd think.
• This is a must read for just about every doctor.. and patient I guess.
  
  I've never walked out of a movie or put down a book because it was too scary. Well.. I had to PUT DOWN "Undue Risk" at about the 20% point. Filed under "Read Later".
  
  If it was a "Saw" movie or something like that? Sure that's all fake and make believe..
  
  What is so horrifying about Undue Risk?
  It is TRUE!
  Most likely thousands of other incidents didn't MAKE it into this book.
  Not to mention the day to day unreported medical horrors still happening today!
  
  Be scared.. be very very scared!
  
  GENE
• Stealth government at it's worst.
• Some interesting things in here. I was looking for real experiments though. All the details all the gore. I understand you cant but all the good stuff in a book without getting into trouble. if anyone has a better book about this please pass it on.