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• Human experimentation in medicine -- Fiction
• Human experimentation in medicine -- Germany
• Human experimentation in medicine -- Law and legislation
• Human experimentation in medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Human experimentation in medicine -- Periodicals
• Human experimentation in medicine -- United States
• Self-experimentation in medicine

• Experimentation on humans, Medical
• Medical experimentation on humans

• Quality of Health Care; Human Experimentation, 1973: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Ninety-Third Congress, First Session (4 volumes; Washington: GPO, 1973), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life Blood (c2000), by Thomas Hoover (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Gladiator (New York: Knopf, 1930), by Philip Wylie
  • Gutenberg text and Librivox audio
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Doktoro Jekyll kaj Sinjoro Hyde (in Esperanto; London: British Esperanto Association, ca. 1909), by Robert Louis Stevenson, trans. by William Morrison and William W. Mann (Gutenberg text)
• El Caso Extraño del Doctor Jekyll (in Spanish; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1891), by Robert Louis Stevenson, trans. by Emilio Augusto Soulére (Gutenberg text)
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bartleby

• The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (1986), by Robert Jay Lifton (HTML with commentary at phdn.org)

• Women and Health Research: Ethical and Legal Issues of Including Women in Clinical Studies (2 volumes; 1994), ed. by Anna C. Mastroianni, Ruth R. Faden, and Daniel D. Federman
  • Volume 1: page images with commentary at NAP
  • Volume 2: page images with commentary at NAP

• "Ethically Impossible": STD Research in Guatemala From 1946 to 1948 (2011), by United States Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (PDF with commentary at bioethics.gov)
• Responsible Research: A Systems Approach to Protecting Research Participants (2003), ed. by Daniel D. Federman, Kathi E. Hanna, and Laura Lyman Rodriguez (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research (1978), by United States National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research (HTML and PDF with commentary at hhs.gov)
• Women and Health Research: Ethical and Legal Issues of Including Women in Clinical Studies (2 volumes; 1994), ed. by Anna C. Mastroianni, Ruth R. Faden, and Daniel D. Federman
  • Volume 1: page images with commentary at NAP
  • Volume 2: page images with commentary at NAP

• "Ethically Impossible": STD Research in Guatemala From 1946 to 1948 (2011), by United States Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (PDF with commentary at bioethics.gov)

• Clinical and Translational Science (full serial archives)

• Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments: Final Report (1995), by United States Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • text at National Security Archive
• Adverse Reactions to HIV Vaccines: Medical, Ethical, and Legal Issues (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c2017), by Deirdre Benia Cooper Owens (PDF at OAPEN)

• Suggestions for the Proving of Drugs on the Healthy: Report of the Committee Appointed for That Purpose (1853), by American Provers' Union (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Clinical Trials in Ovarian Cancer (New Brunswick, NJ et al.: Rutgers University Press, c2017), by Christine S. Walsh (PDF files with commentary at Project Muse)

• Strategies for Ensuring Diversity, Inclusion, and Meaningful Participation in Clinical Trials: Proceedings of a Workshop (Washington: National Academies Press, c2016), by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, contrib. by Karen M. Anderson and Steve Olson (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• Medication Development for the Treatment of Cocaine Dependence: Issues in Clinical Efficacy Trials, ed. by Betty Tai, C. Nora Chiang, and Peter Bridge (PDF files at NIH)

• The Impact of Randomized Clinical Trials on Health Policy and Medical Practice: Background Paper (Washington: Office of Technology Assessment, 1983), by Hellen Gelband, contrib. by Thomas Chalmers and Henry Sacks
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Bioethics and the Holocaust: A Comprehensive Study in How the Holocaust Continues to Shape the Ethics of Health, Medicine and Human Rights (International Library of Bioethics v96; Cham: Springer, c2022), ed. by Stacy Gallin and Ira Bedzow (PD with commentary at OAPEN)
• Rethinking Health Care Ethics (Singapore: Palgrave Pivot, 2018), by Stephen R. Scher and Kasia Kozlowska (multiple formats with commentary at SpringerLink)
• Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror (New York: Institute on Medicine as a Profession, c2013), by Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers (PDF with commentary at imapny.org)
• Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine (1995), ed. by Ruth Ellen Bulger, Elizabeth Meyer Bobby, and Harvey V. Fineberg (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Genethics: Moral Issues in the Creation of People (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by David Heyd (HTML at UC Press)
• Just Doctoring: Medical Ethics in the Liberal State (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Troyen A. Brennan (HTML at UC Press)
• Professional Ethics and Primary Care Medicine: Beyond Dilemmas and Decorum (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1986), by Harmon L. Smith and Larry R. Churchill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beyond Price: Essays on Birth and Death (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2015), by James David Velleman (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Handbook for Rural Health Care Ethics: A Practical Guide for Professionals (Lebanon, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2009), ed. by William A. Nelson (PDF with commentary at Dartmouth)
• Responsible Research: A Systems Approach to Protecting Research Participants (2003), ed. by Daniel D. Federman, Kathi E. Hanna, and Laura Lyman Rodriguez (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Military Medical Ethics (2 volumes from the Textbooks of Military Medicine series; 2003), ed. by Thomas E. Beam and Linette R. Sparacino
  • Volume 1: PDF files at Borden Institute
  • Volume 2: PDF files at Borden Institute
• COVID-19 and World Order: The Future of Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2020), ed. by Hal Brands and Francis J. Gavin (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Future Medicine: Ethical Dilemmas, Regulatory Challenges, and Therapeutic Pathways to Health Care and Healing in Human Transformation (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Michael H. Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beyond Complementary Medicine: Legal and Ethical Perspectives on Health Care And Human Evolution (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Michael H. Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Works: Literary, Moral, Philosophical and Medical (new edition, 4 volumes, with title pages varying somewhat between volumes and copies; London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1807), by Thomas Percival, ed. by Edward Percival (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory's Thyroid Function Study: A Radiological Risk and Ethical Analysis (1996), by National Research Council Committee on Evaluation of 1950s Air Force Human Health Testing in Alaska Using Radioactive Iodine131 (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Raisons de l'Inoculation Pour la Petite Vérole: Par Lesquelles on Fait Voir Que Cette Méthode N'est Aucunement Contraire à la Religion & à la Raison: Mais un Devoir Qu'exigent l'Une & l'Autre (in French; 1768) (page images at NIH)

• Negotiating Bioethics: The Governance of UNESCO's Bioethics Programme (London and New York: Routledge, c2013), by Adèle Langlois
  • multiple formats with commentary at Taylor and Francis
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

• Cole's Medical Practice in New Zealand (12th edition; Wellington: Medical Council of New Zealand, 2013), ed. by Ian St. George, contrib. by David Cole (multiple formats in New Zealand)

• BMC Medical Ethics (2000-) (full serial archives)
• The Linacre Quarterly (partial serial archives)

• Ethical Considerations in the Business Aspects of Health Care (c1995), by Woodstock Theological Center Seminar in Business Ethics (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Biomedical Ethics in U.S. Public Policy (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments: Final Report (1995), by United States Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • text at National Security Archive
• Intensive Care Units (ICUs): Clinical Outcomes, Costs, and Decisionmaking (Washington: Office of Technology Assessment, 1984), by Robert A. Berenson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Taking a Stand on Health Care, by Helen P. Rogers (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Health Data in the Information Age: Use, Disclosure, and Privacy (1994), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Dying for Care: Hospice Care or Euthanasia (electronic edition, 1995), by Harry Van Bommel (HTML with commentary at carelibrary.com)

• Resisting 12-Step Coercion: How to Fight Forced Participation in AA, NA, or 12-Step Treatment (Tucson, AZ: See Sharp Press, 2000), by Stanton Peele (HTML at Wayback Machine)

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