When Doctors Kill (eBook)

Who, Why, and How

Stephen J. Cina, Joshua A. Perper (Autoren)

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2010 | 2010
XVI, 253 Seiten
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-1-4419-1369-2 (ISBN)

Infos

It would come as no surprise that many readers may be shocked and intrigued by the title of our book. Some (especially our medical colleagues) may wonder why it is even worthwhile to raise the issue of killing by doctors. Killing is clearly an- thetical to the Art and Science of Medicine, which is geared toward easing pain and suffering and to saving lives rather than smothering them. Doctors should be a source of comfort rather than a cause for alarm. Nevertheless, although they often don't want to admit it, doctors are people too. Physicians have the same genetic library of both endearing qualities and character defects as the rest of us but their vocation places them in a position to intimately interject themselves into the lives of other people. In most cases, fortunately, the positive traits are dominant and doctors do more good than harm. While physicists and mathematicians paved the road to the stars and deciphered the mysteries of the atom, they simultaneously unleashed destructive powers that may one day bring about the annihilation of our planet. Concurrently, doctors and allied scientists have delved into the deep secrets of the body and mind, mastering the anatomy and physiology of the human body, even mapping the very molecules that make us who we are. But make no mistake, a person is not simply an elegant b- logical machine to be marveled at then dissected.

Inhalt

Preface 7
Acknowledgments 11
Chapter 1: In the Beginning 18
Chapter 2: Perfect Intentions, Imperfect People 23
Chapter 3: The Alpha Killers: Three Prolific Murderous Doctors 28
Saucy Jack (MD?) 29
Dr. Thomas Neill Cream: The Misogynistic Serial Killer 34
Dr. Harold Frederick Shipman: The Champion Serial Killer 38
Chapter 4: America’s Contribution to Medical Mayhem 44
Dr. Holmes’s House of Terror 44
The Starvation “Doctor” 46
The Fugitive 49
Dr. Poison 54
Chapter 5: International Men of Mystery: Other Medical Murderers 56
East Versus West 56
Witch Doctors 59
Chapter 6: To Catch a Killer: Investigating Serial Murders 62
Nature or Nurture? 66
How Do You Catch Them? 67
Chapter 7: The Nazi Murders 70
Why Did They Do It? 73
Duty 74
Preservation of the Race 75
Anti-Semitism 77
Could This Nightmare Happen Again? 78
Chapter 8: Hitler’s “Scientists” 80
The Nazi Experiments 81
Freezing Experiments 82
Genetic Experiments 83
High-Altitude Experiments 84
Antibiotic Experiments 84
Experimental Poisoning 84
Phosgene Experiments 85
Bone, Muscle and Joint Transplantation 85
Sterilization Techniques 85
Artificial Insemination Experiments 86
Seawater Experimentation 86
Incendiary Bomb Experiments 86
Human Petri Dishes 86
Polygal Experiments 87
German Academicians 87
Are the Results of Nazi Criminal Experimentation Reliable? 88
Modern Day Human Experimentation 89
Chapter 9: Made in Japan: Unethical Experiments 90
The Japanese WMD Program 90
Basic Japanese Medical Experiments 94
Human Target Practice and Other Atrocities 95
Why Did They Do It? 96
Chapter 10: Good Old Fashioned American Ingenuity—and Evil 98
Experiments in the Old South 99
Experiments on Filipino Prisoners 100
Experiments on the Disadvantaged 100
Paying a Debt to Society 102
Taking Advantage of the Weak and Innocent 104
It Takes a Village 105
Willing to Die for Your Country? 106
A Piece of Your Mind 107
Doing Your Civic Duty 109
Why Did American Doctors Perform Unethical Medical Experimentation? 110
Experimentation and the Law 111
Chapter 11: Physician Kill Thyself: The Story of Dr. Gwinn E. Puig 114
Self-Experimenting Physicians 114
Boldly Going Where No Man Has Gone Before 115
What Were They Thinking? 118
Physicians and Suicide 120
Chapter 12: Libel Plots Against Physicians (Who Killed Dr. Zhivago?) 125
Plots and Purges 125
Stalin and the Doctors 126
Chapter 13: Judge, Jury, Executioner, and Doctor 131
Dr. Ernesto “Che” Guevara: A Physician in Search of a Revolution 132
Psychiatrists and Genocide 134
“Papa Doc” 138
“The Great Lion” 141
Chapter 14: Trading Treatment for Terror 145
Physicians on the Front Lines 146
The Fort Hood Massacre 149
Doctors as Terrorist Leaders 155
Chapter 15: Guilty Until Proven Innocent 158
Katrina and Dr. Pou 158
The Benghazi Six 162
Chapter 16: Euthanasia, and Assisted Suicide: What Would Hippocrates Do? 167
A Short History of Suicide 167
The Physician and Suicide 168
Physician-Assisted Suicide 170
Legal Assisted-Suicide 172
“Excursional” Suicide 172
Euthanasia 173
Karen and Terri 175
Karen Ann Quinlan 176
Terri Schiavo 177
What Is Right? 180
Chapter 17: Malpractice or Murder? 181
The Current Problem 182
Medical Errors by Individual Physicians 182
Murder Versus Malpractice 184
Chapter 18: It’s All Natural! 187
Alternative and Complementary Medicine 187
Alternative Medicine Gone Bad 190
Attachment Therapy 192
Chapter 19: Contagious Caregivers 195
The Sad Story of Kimberly Bergalis 196
Blood Money 198
Honesty is the Best Medical Policy 198
The Last Word 199
Chapter 20: Fictitious Physicians: Where Has Marcus Welby Gone? 200
Off the Pedestal 201
The Characters 201
“Dr.” Victor Frankenstein 201
Dr. Hannibal “the Cannibal” Lecter 202
Dr. Henry Jekyll 203
Dr. Christian Szell 203
Dr. Josef Mengele 204
Dr. Evil (a.k.a. Dougie Powers) 204
Dr. Richard Kimble 205
Dr. Remy Hadley (a.k.a. “Thirteen”) 205
Dr. Alice Krippen 206
Is Reality Really Stranger Than Fiction? 206
Chapter 21: Doctors to the Stars 207
Dr. Feelgood 207
Celebrities and Abuse of Prescription Drugs 208
Somewhere Under the Rainbow 211
Long Live the King – Or Not 215
Anna Nicole Smith 220
Moonwalk 224
Shooting Stars 232
Can It Be Stopped? 233
Suggested Reading 235
Chapters 1 and 2: In the Beginning Perfect Intentions, Imperfect People

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.6.2010
• Zusatzinfo: XVI, 253 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Biochemie / Molekularbiologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Rechtsmedizin
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: euthanasia • human experimentation • Mass murder • Medical Ethics • medical experimentation • medical misconduct • Perversion • serial killing • unintentional death
• ISBN-10: 1-4419-1369-6 / 1441913696
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4419-1369-2 / 9781441913692