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This book is about the ethics of nursing and midwifery, and how
these were abrogated during the Nazi era. Nurses and midwives
actively killed their patients, many of whom were disabled children
and infants and patients with mental (and other) illnesses or
intellectual disabilities. The book gives the facts as well as
theoretical perspectives as a lens through which these crimes can
be viewed. It also provides a way to teach this history to nursing
and midwifery students, and, for the first time, explains the role
of one of the world s most historically prominent midwifery leaders
in the Nazi crimes."
“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?"
"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
generated the eugenic theories that rationally led them to design
horrendous medical experiments, gas chambers, euthanasia programs
and, ultimately, 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 treat
human beings as they did, can I be certain that I will never do the
same?" * 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
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Lewsi and Susan Benedict
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