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Title When medicine went mad : bioethics and the Holocaust / edited by Arthur L. Caplan.

Imprint Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c1992.

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Description xii, 359 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Contemporary issues in biomedicine, ethics, and society
Note Papers from a conference on May 17-19, 1989 at the University of Minnesota.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-330) and index.
Contents Nazi experiments as viewed by a survivor of Mengele's experiments / Eva Mozes Kor -- A profile of Nazi medicine: the Nazi doctor: his methods and goals / Sara Seiler Vigorito -- The meaning of the Holocaust for bioethics / Gisela Kinopka -- Nazi biomedical policies / Robert N. Proctor -- Eugenics: the science and religion of the Nazis / Benno Muller-Hill -- How did medicine go so wrong? / Arthur L. Caplan -- Scientific inquiry and ethics: the Dachau data / Robert S. Pozos -- Nazi science: comments on the validation of the Dachau human hypothermia experiments / Robert L. Berger -- The Dachau hypothermia study: an ethical and scientific commentary / Jay Katz, Robert S. Pozos -- Moral analysis and the use of Nazi experimental results / Benjamin Freedman -- Can scientists use information derived from the concentration camps?: ancient answers to new questions / Velvl W. Greene -- Which way down the slippery slope?: Nazi medical killing and euthanasia today / Ruth Macklin --
The contemporary euthanasia movement and the Nazi euthanasia program: are there meaningful similarities? / Ronald E. Cranford -- The way they were, the way we are / Richard John Neuhaus -- Abuse of human beings for the sake of science / Jay Katz -- "Medspeak" for murder: the Nazi experience and the culture of medicine / William E. Seidelman -- Twin research at Auschwitz-Birkenau: implications for the use of Nazi data today / Nancy L. Segal -- The Human Genome Project in perspective: confronting our past to protect our future / George J. Annas.
Subject Human experimentation in medicine -- Germany.
Medical ethics.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
Added Author Caplan, Arthur L.
ISBN 0896032353

 
    
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