Bioethics and the Holocaust A Comprehensive Study in How the Holocaust Continues to Shape the Ethics of Health, Medicine and Human Rights

This open access book offers a framework for understanding how the Holocaust has shaped and continues to shape medical ethics, health policy, and questions related to human rights around the world. The field of bioethics continues to face questions of social and medical controversy that have their r...

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Other Authors: Gallin, Stacy (Editor), Bedzow, Ira (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:The International Library of Bioethics
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a Chapter 1. The Question of Relevance (Michael Berenbaum) -- Chapter 2. Teaching Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany: Debunking the Myth that the Nazi Physicians Abandoned their Ethics (Tessa Chelouche) -- Chapter 3. The Role of Professions in a State: The Effects of the Nazi Experience on Health Care Professionalism (Robert Baker) -- Chapter 4. The Physician’s Role: Patient v Popualation (David K. Urion) -- Chapter 5. The Transformation of Physicians from Healers to Killers: The Role of Psychiatry (Susan M. Miller) -- Chapter 6. The Physician at War (Sheena M. Eagan) -- Chapter 7. Medicalization of Social Policies: Defining Health, Defining Illness (Amanda M. Caleb) -- Chapter 8. Bioethics and the Krankenmorde: Disability and Diversity (Edwina Light) -- Chapter 9. Race, Eugenics, and the Holocaust (Jonathan Anomaly) -- Chapter 10. Physician Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, and Bioethics in Nazi and Contemporary Cinema (Sheldon Rubenfeld) -- Chapter 11. From the Nuremberg “Doctors’ Trial” to the “Nuremberg Code” (Paul Weindling) -- Chapter 12. The Rights and Responsibilities of the Physician to Uphold Bioethical Values in Society (Ashley K. Fernandes) -- Chapter 13. Bioethics and the Holocaust in a Multicultural Context (Filotheos-Fotios Maroudas) -- Chapter 14. Medicine, the Holocaust and Human Dignity: Lessons from Human Rights (Jason Adam Wasserman) -- Chapter 15. The Goals of Medicine in a Post-Holocaust Society (Stacy Gallin) 
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520 |a This open access book offers a framework for understanding how the Holocaust has shaped and continues to shape medical ethics, health policy, and questions related to human rights around the world. The field of bioethics continues to face questions of social and medical controversy that have their roots in the lessons of the Holocaust, such as debates over beginning-of-life and medical genetics, end-of-life matters such as medical aid in dying, the development of ethical codes and regulations to guide human subject research, and human rights abuses in vulnerable populations. As the only example of medically sanctioned genocide in history, and one that used medicine and science to fundamentally undermine human dignity and the moral foundation of society, the Holocaust provides an invaluable framework for exploring current issues in bioethics and society today. This book, therefore, is of great value to all current and future ethicists, medical practitioners and policymakers – as well aslaypeople