Unit 731 and moral repair.
J Med Ethics
; 43(4): 270-276, 2017 04.
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ABSTRACT
Unit 731, a biological warfare research organisation that operated under the authority of the Imperial Japanese Army in the 1930s and 1940s, conducted brutal experiments on thousands of unconsenting subjects. Because of the US interest in the data from these experiments, the perpetrators were not prosecuted and the atrocities are still relatively undiscussed. What counts as meaningful moral repair in this case-what should perpetrators and collaborator communities do decades later? We argue for three non-ideal but realistic forms of moral repair (1) a national policy in Japan against human experimentation without appropriate informed and voluntary consent; (2) the establishment of a memorial to the victims of Unit 731; and (3) US disclosure about its use of Unit 731 data and an apology for failing to hold the perpetrators accountable.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Crímenes de Guerra
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Guerra Biológica
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Complicidad
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Experimentación Humana no Terapéutica
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Violaciones de los Derechos Humanos
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Medicina Militar
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Aspecto:
Ethics
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
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Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Med Ethics
Año:
2017
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos