Editors:
- Presents relatively unknown aspects of human subjects research during the Third Reich
- Reveals surprising relationships between German and American human subjects research
- Dispels myths about Nazi human subjects research
- Compels introspection and self-examination by today's medical and research practitioners
- Addresses contemporary bioethical issues affecting vulnerable populations
- Brings together experts in the history of medicine during the Third Reich and thoughtful new voices
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
“An engaging, compelling and disturbing confrontation with evil …a book that will be transformative in its call for individual and collective moral responsibility." – Michael A. Grodin, M.D., Professor and Director, Project on Medicine and the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, Boston University
Human Subjects Research after the Holocaust challenges you to confront the misguided medical ethics of the Third Reich personally, and to apply the lessons learned to contemporary human subjects research. While it is comforting to believe that Nazi physicians, nurses, and bioscientists were either incompetent, mad, or few in number, they were, in fact, the best in the world at the time, and the vast majority participated in the government program of “applied biology.” They were not coerced to behave as they did—they enthusiastically exploited widely accepted eugenic theories to design horrendous medical experiments, gas chambers and euthanasia programs, which ultimately led to mass murder in the concentration camps. Americans provided financial support for their research, modeled their medical education and research after the Germans, and continued to perform unethical human subjects research even after the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial. The German Medical Association apologized in 2012 for the behavior of its physicians during the Third Reich. By examining the medical crimes of human subjects researchers during the Third Reich, you will naturally examine your own behavior and that of your colleagues, and perhaps ask yourself "If the best physicians and bioscientists of the early 20th century could do evil while believing they were doing good, can I be certain that I will never do the same?"
Keywords
- American Support German Eugenic Research
- Berlin Charite Hospital
- Brain Specimens Victims of Nazi Euthanasia
- Flexner Report
- Health Care Disparities Human Subject Research
- Hermann Stieve
- Holocaust Bioethics
- Human Subjects Bioethics
- Human Subjects Research
- Human Subjects Research US
- Human Subjects Research after Holocaust Book
- Human Subjects Research at End of Life
- Medical Ethics Nazi Germany
- Medical Ethics Terminally Ill
- Nanomedicine, Bioethical Implications
- Nazi Medicine
- Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial
- Nurses Human Subjects Third Reich
- Patient Rights
- Psychiatric Genetics
- Reproductive Issues Bioethics
- The White Rose
- Twin Experiments Auschwitz
- Walter Reed, Gerhard Rose, Vaccines
Reviews
From the book reviews:
“The book makes many valuable and previously little-known contributions to the understanding of relationships between medicine and research during the Nazi period and ethical implications for today. Summing Up: Recommended. Bioethics collections serving upper-division undergraduates and above.” (M. D. Lagerwey, Choice, Vol. 52 (7), March, 2015)
Editors and Affiliations
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Baylor College of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Nursing, Center for Medicine after the Holocaust, Houston, USA
Sheldon Rubenfeld
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The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Nursing, Houston, USA
Susan Benedict
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Subjects Research after the Holocaust
Editors: Sheldon Rubenfeld, Susan Benedict
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05702-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-05701-9Published: 17 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34322-8Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-05702-6Published: 30 June 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 308
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Ethics, Pharmacology/Toxicology, History of Science, History of Medicine, Human Rights