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Human Subjects Research after the Holocaust (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
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Human Subjects Research after the Holocaust (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
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“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?"
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