When Medicine Went Mad Bioethics and the Holocaust

In When Medicine Went Mad, one of the nation's leading bioethicists-and an extraordinary panel of experts and concentration camp survivors-examine problems first raised by Nazi medical experimentation that remain difficult and relevant even today. The importance of these issues to contemporary...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Caplan, Arthur L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ Humana 1992, 1992
Edition:1st ed. 1992
Series:Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:In When Medicine Went Mad, one of the nation's leading bioethicists-and an extraordinary panel of experts and concentration camp survivors-examine problems first raised by Nazi medical experimentation that remain difficult and relevant even today. The importance of these issues to contemporary bioethical disputes-particularly in the thorny areas of medical genetics, human experimentation, and euthanasia-are explored in detail and with sensitivity
Physical Description:XII, 359 p online resource
ISBN:9781461204138