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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Totowa, NJ
Humana
1992, 1992
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| 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 |
Table of Contents:
- Testimonies
- Nazi Experiments as Viewed by a Survivor of Mengele’s Experiments
- A Profile of Nazi Medicine: The Nazi Doctor His Methods and Goals
- The Meaning of the Holocaust for Bioethics
- Medicine, Bioethics, and Nazism
- Nazi Biomedical Policies
- Eugenics: The Science and Religion of the Nazis
- How Did Medicine Go So Wrong?
- The Use of Information from Nazi “Experiments” The Case of Hypothermia
- Scientific Inquiry and Ethics: The Dachau Data
- Nazi Science: Comments on the Validation of the Dachau Human Hypothermia Experiments
- The Dachau Hypothermia Study:An Ethical and Scientific Commentary
- Moral Analysis and the Use of Nazi Experimental Results
- Can Scientists Use Information Derived from the Concentration Camps? Ancient Answers to New Questions
- Medical Killing and Euthanasia: Then and Now
- Which Way Down the Slippery Slope? Nazi Medical Killing and Euthanasia Today
- The Contemporary Euthanasia Movement and the Nazi Euthanasia Program: Are There Meaningful Similarities?
- The Way They Were, The Way We Are
- The Abuse of Medicine and the Legacy of the Holocaust
- Abuse of Human Beings for the Sake of Science
- “Medspeak” for Murder: The Nazi Experience and the Culture of Medicine
- Twin Research at Auschwitz-Birkenau: Implications for the Use of Nazi Data Today
- The Human Genome Project in Perspective: Confronting Our Past To Protect Our Future
- Notes and References