Description |
xii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Series |
Contemporary issues in biomedicine, ethics, and society |
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Contemporary issues in biomedicine, ethics, and society.
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Contents |
Testimonies. 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 Konopka -- Medicine, Bioethics, and Nazism. 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 -- The Use of Information from Nazi "Experiments": the Case of Hypothermia. 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 and 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 -- Medical Killing and Euthanasia: Then and Now. 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 -- The Abuse of Medicine and the Legacy of the Holocaust. 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 |
Notes |
Papers from a conference on May 17-19, 1989 at the University of Minnesota |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-330) and index |
Subject |
Human experimentation in medicine -- Germany.
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Medical ethics.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
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Human experimentation in medicine -- Germany.
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Medical ethics.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
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Human Experimentation.
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Ethics, Medical -- history.
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Ethics, Medical.
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History, 20th Century.
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Human Experimentation.
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Informed Consent -- history.
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War Crimes.
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SUBJECT |
Germany. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005858 |
Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Author |
Caplan, Arthur L.
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LC no. |
92011687 |
ISBN |
0896032353 |
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