Medicine, Ethics, and the Third Reich

Historical and Contemporary Issues

By: John J. Michalczyk (Editor)

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Medical experimentation on human subjects during the Third Reich raises deep moral and ethical questions. This volume features prominent voices in the filed of bioethics reflecting on a wide rang of topics and issues. Amid all contemporary discussions of ethical in science, many ethicists, historians, Holocaust specialists and medical professionals strongly feel that we should understand the past in order to make more enlightened ethical decisions.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Laying the Groundwork
The Relevance of the Holocaust to Current Bio-Medical Issues	p. 3
Biomedical Ethics and the Shadow of Nazism	p. 13
Contested Terrain: The Nazi Analogy in Bioethics	p. 16
The Healing-Killing Paradox	p. 19
From Racial Hygiene Theories to Euthanasia and Sterilization
Human Genetics in Nazi Germany	p. 27
Racial Hygiene: The Collaboration of Medicine and Nazism	p. 35
Sterilization, Euthanasia, and the Holocaust--The Brutal Chain	p. 42
Nazi Eugenics: Adaptation and Resistance among German Catholic Intellectual Leaders	p. 50
Euthanasia in Nazi Propaganda Films: Selling Murder	p. 64
Human Experimentation: "Am I My Brother's Keeper?"
Concentration Camp Experiments: Their Relevance for Contemporary Research with Human Beings	p. 73
Nazi Science--The Dachau Hypothermia Experiments	p. 87
The Personal, Public, and Political Dimensions of Being a Mengele Guinea Pig	p. 101
The Changing Landscape of Human Experimentation: Nuremberg, Helsinki, and Beyond	p. 106
Women and the Reich
The Stations of the Cross	p. 129
Nursing Issues during the Third Reich	p. 143
Jewish Doctors in the Shadow of the Reich
Creativity in the Face of Disaster: Medicine in the Warsaw Ghetto	p. 153
An Historical and Contemporary View of Jewish Doctors in Germany	p. 161
Nuremberg's Legacy
Historical Origins of the Nuremberg Code	p. 169
Into the Future
Relevance of Nazi Medical Behavior to the Health Profession Today	p. 197
Medicine and Human Rights: A Proposal for International Action	p. 199
Conclusions
Lessons We Have Learned?	p. 213
Documents
Hippocrates, The Oath of Hippocrates	p. 219
Nuremberg, Charter of the International Military Tribunal (1945)	p. 220
Permissible Medical Experiments, Nuremberg Standards (1947)	p. 222
World Medical Association, Declaration of Tokyo (1975)	p. 224
The General Assembly, United Nations Principles of Medical Ethics (1982)	p. 226
Chronology	p. 228
The Auschwitz/Mengele Twins	p. 233
General Bibliography	p. 237
Contributors	p. 242
Index	p. 245
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