When Medicine Went Mad

Bioethics and the Holocaust

Arthur L. Caplan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

359 Seiten

2012 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
Humana Press Inc. (Verlag)
978-1-4612-6751-5 (ISBN)

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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 bioethical disputes-particularly in the thorny areas of medical genetics, human experimentation, and euthanasia-are explored in detail and with sensitivity.

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.

"Many of the essays are excellent: informative, persuasive, and foundational to any debate about the Holocaust's relevance to contemporary bioethical concerns. "-Choice

Reihe/Serie	Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society
Zusatzinfo	XII, 359 p.
Verlagsort	Totowa, NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
ISBN-10	1-4612-6751-X / 146126751X
ISBN-13	978-1-4612-6751-5 / 9781461267515
Zustand	Neuware