Backgrounder: Bioweapons & Eugenics

Books about man’s inhumanity to man. Click on image for detailed record.

Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World–Told from the Inside by the Man
by Ken Alibek and Stephen Handelman
reprint edition, Delta, 2000

The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation
edited by George J. Annas and Michael A. Grodin
Oxford University Press, 1992

Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
by Nicolson Baker
July 2021, Penguin Books

Barriers to Bioweapons: The Challenges of Expertise and Organization for Weapons Development
by Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley
Cornell University Press, 2014

Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America’s Quest for Racial Purity
by Harry Bruinius
reprint edition, Vintage, 2007

Terrorism, War, or Disease? Unraveling the Use of Biological Weapons
edited by Anne C. Clunan, Peter R. Lavoy, and Susan B. Martin
Stanford Security Studies, 2008

In the Sleep Room: The Story of the CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada
by Anne Collins
reprint edition, Key Porter, 1997

Doing Harm: How the World’s Largest Psychological Association Lost Its Way in the Way on Terror
by Roy J. Eidelson
September 2023, McGill-Queen’s University Press

Margaret Sanger’s Eugenic Legacy: The Control of Female Fertility
by Angela Franks
McFarland, 2005

Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
by Stephen Kinzer
November 2020, St. Martin’s Griffin

Inside the Hot Zone: A Soldier on the Front Lines of Biological Warfare
by Mark G. Kortepeter
January 2020, Potomac Books

Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America Before the Second World War 
by Susan E. Lederer
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
by Robert Jay Lifton
Reprint edition, Basic Books, 2017

A Century of Eugenics in America: From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era
edited by Paul A. Lombardo
Indiana University Press, 2011

The Origins of Bioethics: Remembering When Medicine Went Wrong
by John A. Lynch
September 2019, Michigan State University Press

Bioterrorism: The History of a Crisis in American Society: Pubic Health, Law Enforcement, and Minority Issues
edited by David McBride
reprint edition, November 2022, Routledge

Germs: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War
by Judith Miller, et al.
reprint edition, Simon and Schuster, 2002

Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons
by Kris Newby
June 2020, Harper Wave

In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics
by Victoria F. Nourse
W. W. Norton, 2008

The Dancer and the Devil: Stalin, Pavlova, and the Road to the Great Pandemic
by John E. O’Neill and Sarah C. Wynne
April 2022, Regnery

Human Guinea Pigs: Experimentation on Man
by M. H. Pappworth
reprint edition, February 2023, Routledge

Eugenics at the Edges of Empire: New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa
edited by Diane B. Paul, et al.
Springer, 2018

Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
by Adam Rutherford
November 2022, W. W. Norton

Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments
by Ulf Schmidt
reprint edition, Oxford University Press, 2019

Agents of War: A History of Chemical and Biological Weapons
by Edward M. Spiers
2nd edition, March 2021, Reaktion Books

Journey Into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical Abuse
by Gordon Thomas
Bantam, 1989

Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent
by Harriet A. Washington
February 2021, Columbia Global Reports

In the Name of Science: A History of Secret Programs, Medical Research, and Human Experimentation
by Harriet A. Washington
St. Martin’s Press, 2003

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
by Harriet A. Washington
Anchor Books, 2008

Biohacked: China’s Race to Control Life
by Brandon J. Weichert
May 2023, Encounter Books