When Medicine Went Mad: Bioethics and the Holocaust (Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society)

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Nazi Experiments as Viewed by a Survivor of Mengele’s Experiments....Pages 3-8 A Profile of Nazi Medicine....Pages 9-13 The Meaning of the Holocaust for Bioethics....Pages 15-20 Front Matter....Pages 21-21 Nazi Biomedical Policies....Pages 23-42 Eugenics....Pages 43-52 How Did Medicine Go So Wrong?....Pages 53-92 Front Matter....Pages 93-93 Scientific Inquiry and Ethics....Pages 95-108 Nazi Science....Pages 109-133 The Dachau Hypothermia Study....Pages 135-139 Moral Analysis and the Use of Nazi Experimental Results....Pages 141-154 Can Scientists Use Information Derived from the Concentration Camps?....Pages 155-170 Front Matter....Pages 171-171 Which Way Down the Slippery Slope?....Pages 173-200 The Contemporary Euthanasia Movement and the Nazi Euthanasia Program....Pages 201-210 The Way They Were,The Way We Are....Pages 211-230 Front Matter....Pages 231-231 Abuse of Human Beings for the Sake of Science....Pages 233-270 “Medspeak” for Murder....Pages 271-279 Twin Research at Auschwitz-Birkenau....Pages 281-299 The Human Genome Project in Perspective....Pages 301-319 Back Matter....Pages 321-359