Medical Library

"Deadly Medicine" - Explore Medical Research Ethics and Abuses at the Library

 

Cover of the book "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race," one of several books on display in the medical library lobby.

The Medical Library is featuring a special collection of books on medical research ethics and abuses to correspond with the "Deadly Medicine" exhibit coming to ETSU from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.  
 
The "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race" exhibit will be featured at the Reece Museum from through September 30, 2017. Through reproductions of photographs and documents, films, and survivor testimony, it traces how the persecution of groups deemed biologically inferior led to the near annihilation of European Jewry. It also challenges viewers to reflect on the present-day interest in genetic manipulation that promotes the possibility of human perfection.  
 
The Medical Library is hosting a corresponding book display to promote awareness of historical medical research abuses, educate future healthcare professionals about research ethics, and contribute to the prevention of such abuses in the future.  The available texts document Nazi medical research abuses and also engage with research and medical abuses against people with disabilities, people of color, prisoners, detainees, and other vulnerable populations, including the U.S.'s history of eugenic practices. Included texts also explore the role of healthcare providers, governments, and social policies in these abuses and provide guidance for the ethical conduct of health sciences research.  
 
These texts will be on display in the library lobby for the duration of the "Deadly Medicine" exhibit and then will be moved to the library's regular collection. If you would like to read any of the included texts, you will need your ETSU ID badge to check the books out at the library's service desk.  

Content note: Books in this special display may include sensitive and graphic images. Some texts also use outdated, disrespectful language such as "imbeciles" or "master race" to reflect the era and context in which the described events occurred. For assistance in selecting a book or avoiding certain content, please speak with a librarian.  

Books and DVDs available in the library's display:  

  • Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison (Allen M. Hornblum) 
  • Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments: Final Report  
  • Against Their Will: North Carolina's Sterilization Program and the Campaign for Reparations (Kevin Begos et al)     
  • Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America  (Allen M. Hornblum et al) 
  • Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (James H. Jones)  
  • Beyond Consent: Seeking Justice in Research (Jeffrey P. Kahn et al) 
  • Bioethics and Disability: Toward a Disability-Conscious Bioethics (Alicia Ouellette) 
  • Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race (Kuntz et al) 
  • Death and Deliverance: 'Euthanasia' in Germany, c.1900 to 1945 (Michael Burleigh) 
  • Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans (Vivien Spitz) 
  • Echoes from Auschwitz: Dr. Mengele's Twins: The Story of Eva and Miriam Mozes (Eva Mozes Kor, Mary Wright) 
  • Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research: Readings and Commentary (Ezekiel J. Emanuel et al) 
  • Ethically Impossible: STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948 (Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues)  
  • Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror (Institute on Medicine as a Profession) 
  • Evaluating the Science and Ethics of Research on Humans: A Guide for IRB Members (Dennis J. Mazur) 
  • [DVD] Forgiving Dr. Mengele (Pugh et al, with Eva Mozes Kor) 
  • Forgotten Crimes: The Holocaust and People with Disabilities (Susanne E. Evans) 
  • A History and Sociology of the Willowbrook State School (David Goode et al) 
  • Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck (Adam Cohen) 
  • Inhuman Research: Medical Experiments in German Concentration Camps (Alfred Pasternak) 
  • Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Dorothy Roberts) 
  • Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation from Colonial Times to Present (Harriet A. Washington) 
  • [DVD] Miss Evers' Boys (Sargent)  
  • Moral Science: Protecting Participants in Human Subjects Research (Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues)  
  • The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (Robert Jay Lifton) 
  • The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation (George J. Annas et al) 
  • Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror (Steven H. Miles, MD) 
  • The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War (Eileen Welsome)  
  • Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz (Eva Mozes Kor et al) 
  • The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth Century (Ian Dowbiggen)  
  • Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell (Paul A. Lombardo)  
  • The Treatment: The Story of Those Who Died in the Cincinnati Radiation Tests  (Martha Stephens) 
  • Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans (Jonathan D. Moreno)

 

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