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Previous Volume 352:1618-1619 April 14, 2005 Number 15

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Edited by Volker Roelcke and Giovanni Maio. 361 pp. Stuttgart, Germany, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. $81.95. ISBN 3-515-08455-X.

The essays in this book arose from a conference dedicated to the "History of Human Experimentation during the Twentieth Century," held in 2001 at the University of Lübeck in Germany. Eight of the 23 contributors (including the editors) live in Germany; the remaining authors are from the Czech Republic, France, Israel, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, which gives this book an international flavor.

Roelcke and Maio point out in their preface that "historical arguments are frequently used to propagate or attack" positions in current bioethics debates. And they rightly assert that when players in these debates . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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