RT Article
T1 Unit 731 and moral repair
JF Journal of medical ethics
VO 43
IS 4
SP 270
OP 276
A1 Hickey, Doug
A2 Li, Scarllet SiJia
A2 Morrison, Celia
A2 Schulz, Richard
A2 Thiry, Michelle
A2 Sorensen, Kelly
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1816101958
AB 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.
DO 10.1136/medethics-2015-103177