When Medicine Went Mad

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Testimonies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Nazi Experiments as Viewed by a Survivor of Mengele’s Experiments

      • Eva Mozes Kor

      Pages 3-8

   3. A Profile of Nazi Medicine

      • Sara Seiler Vigorito

      Pages 9-13

   4. The Meaning of the Holocaust for Bioethics

      • Gisela Konopka

      Pages 15-20

3. Medicine, Bioethics, and Nazism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Nazi Biomedical Policies

      • Robert N. Proctor

      Pages 23-42

   3. Eugenics

      • Benno Müller-Hill

      Pages 43-52

   4. How Did Medicine Go So Wrong?

      • Arthur L. Caplan

      Pages 53-92

4. The Use of Information from Nazi “Experiments”

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

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   2. Scientific Inquiry and Ethics

      • Robert S. Pozos

      Pages 95-108

   3. Nazi Science

      • Robert L. Berger

      Pages 109-133

   4. The Dachau Hypothermia Study

      • Jay Katz, Robert S. Pozos

      Pages 135-139

   5. Moral Analysis and the Use of Nazi Experimental Results

      • Benjamin Freedman

      Pages 141-154

   6. Can Scientists Use Information Derived from the Concentration Camps?

      • Velvl W. Greene

      Pages 155-170

5. Medical Killing and Euthanasia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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   2. Which Way Down the Slippery Slope?

      • Ruth Macklin

      Pages 173-200

   3. The Contemporary Euthanasia Movement and the Nazi Euthanasia Program

      • Ronald E. Cranford

      Pages 201-210

   4. The Way They Were,The Way We Are

      • Richard John Neuhaus

      Pages 211-230

6. The Abuse of Medicine and the Legacy of the Holocaust

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-231

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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.

• Religion
• bioethics
• eugenics
• euthanasia
• genetics
• medicine
• morality

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

• Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

  Arthur L. Caplan

Policies and ethics