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Following decades of silence about the involvement of doctors,
medical researchers and other health professionals in the Holocaust
and other National Socialist (Nazi) crimes, scholars in recent
years have produced a growing body of research that reveals the
pervasive extent of that complicity. This interdisciplinary
collection of studies presents documentation of the critical role
medicine played in realizing the policies of Hitler's regime. It
traces the history of Nazi medicine from its roots in the racial
theories of the 1920s, through its manifestations during the Nazi
period, on to legacies and continuities from the postwar years to
the present.
This anthology is the culmination of some 20 years of interest in
the field of bioethics. I began my studies in the philosophy of
science while at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970.
My interest then, as now, continues to be the complex
interrelationship between science and the humanities. While
grounded in philosophy and molecular biology, I yearned for a more
applied realm for exploration and integration of the value laden
nature of science in the public policy arena. After receiving my
medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, I
continued my work in medical ethics focusing primarily on the
ethics of human experimentation, newborn and reproductive
technologies, and human genetics. As I completed my clinical
training at the University of California at Los Angeles and at
Harvard, I had the opportunity to use philosophical ethics in an
attempt to understand, frame and resolve moral dilemmas in clinical
practice. As a professor of medical ethics at Boston University for
the past decade, I have taught bioethics at the undergraduate,
graduate and post doctoral levels. Over these years I have become
increasingly frustrated by the state of contemporary bioethics.
Medicine continues to serve as an interesting paradigm for
philosophers to explore novel theories about life, death, mind,
suffering and meaning. Philosophy, however, has not served medicine
quite so well as a source of knowledge and discipline to resolve
the contemporary moral dilemmas found in health care.
This interdisciplinary text is the first to address the many questions and controversies surrounding the use of children as research subjects. Experts in the field of biomedical and behavioural research with children consider the issues in terms of biomedical science, child psychology, ethics, and the law, providing a careful balance between individual and societal benefits. This practical guide will be invaluable to everyone involved in performing or reviewing research involving children.
This timely and definitive book examines the nature, scope and proper place of the Nuremberg Code in medical research. Nuremberg has not only played a pivotal role in the ethics and law of human experimentation, it is also a seminal event in the history of codes of human ethics. This book analyses Nazi medicine and its role in setting the standards for human experimentation, and traces the role the Code has played in shaping research ethics and regulation from 1947 to the present.
What is bioethics? What are its goals and theoretical assumptions?
Is it a unique discipline? Must medical ethics be grounded in
clinical experience? How can ethical inquiry inform medicine's
theory and practice? Must one have a definition of medicine before
one can have a medical ethic? Does medicine have a unique or
demarcating body of knowledge, methodology, or philosophy? These
questions are addressed by a distinguished roster of philosophers,
theologians, lawyers, social scientists, physicians and scientists.
The unifying theme of this text is a philosophical exploration of
the history, nature, scope and foundations of bioethics. There is a
critical evaluation of principled, communitarian, legal, narrative
and feminist approaches. The book's interdisciplinary focus allows
for a lively dialogue which includes papers and accompanying
commentaries. It should be of interest to philosophers of science
and medical ethicists, physicians, lawyers and policy makers.
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