2003, ISBN: 9780312303563

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[ED: Hardcover/gebunden], [PU: St. Martin's Press], Science, as Andrew Goliszek proves in this compendious, chilling, and eye-opening book, has always had its dark side. Behind the bright… Mehr…

[ED: Hardcover/gebunden], [PU: St. Martin's Press], Science, as Andrew Goliszek proves in this compendious, chilling, and eye-opening book, has always had its dark side. Behind the bright promise of life-saving vaccines and life-enhancing technologies lies the true cost of the efforts to develop them. Knowledge has a price often that price has been human suffering. The ethical limits governing use of the human body in experimentation have been breached, redefined, and breached again---from the moment the first plague-ridden corpse was heaved over the fortifications of a besieged medieval city to the use of cutting-edge gene therapy today. Those limits are in constant need of redefinition, for the goals and the techniques have become both more refined and more secretive. The German and Japanese human experiments of the 1930s and 1940s horrified the world when they came to light. These barbaric exercises in pseudoscience grew out of assumptions of racial superiority. The subjects were deemed subhuman ordinary guidelines could therefore be suspended. What has happened in the decades since World War II has differed only in degree. Explicitly or implicitly, any organization or government that undertakes or sponsors scientific research applies some measure of human worth. Experimentation rests upon an equation that balances suffering against gain, the good of the collective against the rights of the individual, and the risk of unknown consequences against the rewards of scientific discovery. Everything depends upon who makes that equation. The sobering and gripping accumulation of evidence in this book proves exactly what has been justified in the name of science. The science of "eugenics" justified enforced sterilization. The need to gain an upper hand in the Cold War justified CIA experiments involving mind control and drugs. The desperate race to control nuclear proliferation was used to justify radiation experiments whose effects are still being felt today. Chemical warfare, gene therapy, molecular medicine: These subjects dominate headlines and even direct our government's foreign policy, yet the whole truth about the experimentation behind them has never been made public. Though not a cheering book, In the Name of Science is a crucially important one, and it deserves a wide audience. A biologist by training, Goliszek presents each topic clearly and explains fully its significance and implications. Connecting the history of scientific experimentation through time with the topics that are likely to dominate the future, he has performed an invaluable service. No other book on the market provides the research included here, or presents it with such persuasive force. Example: Project ARTICHOKE (also referred to as Operation ARTICHOKE) was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) project that researched interrogation methods. Preceded by Project BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE officially arose on August 20, 1951 and was operated by the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence. The primary goal of Project ARTICHOKE was to determine whether a person could be involuntarily made to perform an act of attempted assassination. The project also studied hypnosis, forced morphine addiction (and subsequent forced withdrawal) and the use of other chemicals including LSD, to produce amnesia and other vulnerable states in subjects. Project ARTICHOKE led to Project MKUltra, which began in 1953. ARTICHOKE was a mind control program that gathered information together with the intelligence divisions of the Army, Navy, Air Force and FBI. In addition, the scope of the project was outlined in a memo dated January 1952 that stated, Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature, such as self-preservation? Project ARTICHOKE was the Central Intelligence Agency's secret code name for carrying out in-house and overseas experiments using LSD, hypnosis and total isolation as forms of physiological harassment for special interrogations on human subjects. At first agents used cocaine, marijuana, heroin, peyote and mescaline, but they increasingly saw LSD as the most promising drug. The subjects who left this project were fogged with amnesia, resulting in faulty and vague memories of the experience. In 1952, LSD was increasingly given to unknowing CIA agents to determine the drug's effects on unsuspecting people. One record states that an agent was kept on LSD for 77 days. ARTICHOKE researched the potential of dengue fever and other diseases. A declassified ARTICHOKE memo read: Not all viruses have to be lethal the objective includes those that act as short-term and long-term incapacitating agents. The CIA disputed which department would take over the operation. Finally, it was decided that an agent from the CIA research staff, former U.S. Army brigadier general Paul F. Gaynor, would oversee it. The CIA sought to establish control over what it perceived as the weaker and less intelligent segments of society, or for potential agents, defectors, refugees, POWs and others. A CIA report states that if hypnosis succeeded, assassins could be created to assassinate "a prominent [redacted] politician or if necessary, [an] American official." The overseas operations took place in locations throughout Europe, Japan, Southeast Asia and the Philippines. Teams were assembled to manage these operations and they were told to "conduct at the overseas bases operational experiments utilizing aliens as subjects." (en.wikipedia.org) Sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar., DE, [SC: 2.40], leichte Gebrauchsspuren, gewerbliches Angebot, gr. 8, 464, [GW: 820g], [PU: New York], 1. Auflage, Banküberweisung, Internationaler Versand<

2003, ISBN: 0312303564

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[EAN: 9780312303563], [PU: NY. November 2003. St. Martin’s Press], Jacket, grey hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square … Mehr…

[EAN: 9780312303563], [PU: NY. November 2003. St. Martin’s Press], Jacket, grey hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. few faint spots on top edge, other edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. looks new. like new. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first edition so stated. first printing ( # 1 in # line). xiv+448p. bibliography. index. world history. history of science. conspiracy theory. covert operations. biology. psychology. ~ DO YOU KNOW WHAT IS BEING DONE IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE? IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE contains recently declassified information about voluntary and involuntary human experimentation conducted in the United States and throughout the world over the past fifty years~and shows us what may lie ahead. • Documents top~secret research involving chemical and biological weapons, often tested on civilian populations. • Illuminates human radiation experiments, shedding new light on one of the most shocking uses of human subjects in modern history. • Reveals the CIA's extensive program in mind control and behavior modification, using never~before~published testimonials by individuals involved. • Uncovers efforts by unscrupulous researchers and physicians to test dangerous procedures and useless drugs on human subjects in order to promote products, boost company stock prices, and secure research grants. • Describes the origins and sinister history of eugenics programs and offers evidence of present~day eugenics programs designed specifically to control global populations. • Exposes a secret agenda by which the United States and European governments might exploit international treaties to control the global pharmaceutical and health~care industry and criminalize the use of nutrition supplements. • Explains how rapid advances in genetic engineering and molecular biology are leading us toward the creation of ethnic weapons. Science, as Andrew Goliszek proves in this compendious and eye~opening book, has always had its dark side. Behind the bright promise of life~saving vaccines and life~enhancing technologies lies the true cost of the efforts to develop them. From the moment the first plague~ridden corpse was heaved over the fortifications of a besieged medieval city to the use of cutting~edge gene therapy today, the ethical limits governing the use of the human body in experimentation have been breached, redefined, and breached again. The German and Japanese human experiments of the 1930s and 1940s horrified the world when they came to light. The subjects were deemed subhuman; ordinary guidelines could therefore be suspended. What has happened in the decades since World War II has differed only in degree. Explicitly or implicitly, any organization or government that undertakes or sponsors scientific research applies some measure of human worth, an equation that balances suffering against gain, and the risk of unknown consequences against the rewards of scientific discovery. Everything depends upon who makes that equation. This book proves in chilling detail what has been justified in the name of science. The science of "eugenics" justified enforced sterilization. The need to gain an upper hand in the Cold War justified CIA experiments involving mind control and drugs. The desperate race to control nuclear proliferation justified radiation experiments whose effects are still being felt today. Chemical warfare, gene therapy, molecular medicine: These subjects dominate headlines and even direct our government's foreign policy, yet the whole truth about them has never been made public. Not a cheering book, In the Name of Science is, nonetheless, a crucially important one. Connecting the history of scientific experimentation through time with the topics that are likely to extend into the future, Goliszek has performed an invaluable servi, Books<

ISBN: 9780312303563

Science, as Andrew Goliszek proves in this compendious, chilling, and eye-opening book, has always had its dark side. Behind the bright promise of life-saving vaccines and life-enhancing … Mehr…

Science, as Andrew Goliszek proves in this compendious, chilling, and eye-opening book, has always had its dark side. Behind the bright promise of life-saving vaccines and life-enhancing technologies lies the true cost of the efforts to develop them. Knowledge has a price; often that price has been human suffering. The ethical limits governing use of the human body in experimentation have been breached, redefined, and breached again---from the moment the first plague-ridden corpse was heaved over the fortifications of a besieged medieval city to the use of cutting-edge gene therapy today. Those limits are in constant need of redefinition, for the goals and the techniques have become both more refined and more secretive. The German and Japanese human experiments of the 1930s and 1940s horrified the world when they came to light. These barbaric exercises in pseudoscience grew out of assumptions of racial superiority. The subjects were deemed subhuman; ordinary guidelines could therefore be suspended. What has happened in the decades since World War II has differed only in degree. Explicitly or implicitly, any organization or government that undertakes or sponsors scientific research applies some measure of human worth. Experimentation rests upon an equation that balances suffering against gain, the good of the collective against the rights of the individual, and the risk of unknown consequences against the rewards of scientific discovery. Everything depends upon who makes that equation. The sobering and gripping accumulation of evidence in this book proves exactly what has been justified in the name of science. The science of "eugenics" justified enforced sterilization. The needto gain an upper hand in the Cold War justified CIA experiments involving mind control and drugs. The desperate race to control nuclear proliferation was used to justify radiation experiments whose effects are still being felt today. Chemical warfare, gene therapy, molecular medicine: These subjects dominate headlines and even direct our government's foreign policy, yet the whole truth about the experimentation behind them has never been made public. Though not a cheering book, "In the Name of Science" is a crucially important one, and it deserves a wide audience. A biologist by training, Goliszek presents each topic clearly and explains fully its significance and implications. Connecting the history of scientific experimentation through time with the topics that are likely to dominate the future, he has performed an invaluable service. No other book on the market provides the research included here, or presents it with such persuasive force. Media > Book, [PU: St Martin's Press]<