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When Medicine Went Mad

Bioethics and the Holocaust

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Arthur L. Caplan

    1. Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

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

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Arthur L. Caplan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: When Medicine Went Mad

  • Book Subtitle: Bioethics and the Holocaust

  • Editors: Arthur L. Caplan

  • Series Title: Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0413-8

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89603-235-4Published: 17 July 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-6751-5Published: 28 September 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-0413-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 359

  • Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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