When Medicine Went Mad
When Medicine Went Mad

Author: Arthur L. Caplan

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1461204135

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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.

Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

Author: Sheldon Rubenfeld

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-11-03

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1793609500

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Unlike Nazi medical experiments, euthanasia during the Third Reich is barely studied or taught. Often, even asking whether euthanasia during the Third Reich is relevant to contemporary debates about physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia is dismissed as inflammatory. Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Before, During, and After the Holocaust explores the history of euthanasia before and during the Third Reich in depth and demonstrate how Nazi physicians incorporated mainstream Western philosophy, eugenics, population medicine, prevention, and other medical ideas into their ideology. This book reveals that euthanasia was neither forced upon physicians nor wantonly practiced by a few fanatics, but widely embraced by Western medicine before being sanctioned by the Nazis. Contributors then reflect on the significance of this history for contemporary debates about PAS and euthanasia. While they take different views regarding these practices, almost all agree that there are continuities between the beliefs that the Nazis used to justify euthanasia and the ideology that undergirds present-day PAS and euthanasia. This conclusion leads our scholars to argue that the history of Nazi medicine should make society wary about legalizing PAS or euthanasia and urge caution where it has been legalized.

Bioethics and the Holocaust
Bioethics and the Holocaust

Author: Stacy Gallin

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-07-07

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 3031019873

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This open access book offers a framework for understanding how the Holocaust has shaped and continues to shape medical ethics, health policy, and questions related to human rights around the world. The field of bioethics continues to face questions of social and medical controversy that have their roots in the lessons of the Holocaust, such as debates over beginning-of-life and medical genetics, end-of-life matters such as medical aid in dying, the development of ethical codes and regulations to guide human subject research, and human rights abuses in vulnerable populations. As the only example of medically sanctioned genocide in history, and one that used medicine and science to fundamentally undermine human dignity and the moral foundation of society, the Holocaust provides an invaluable framework for exploring current issues in bioethics and society today. This book, therefore, is of great value to all current and future ethicists, medical practitioners and policymakers – as well as laypeople.

Alternatives in Jewish Bioethics
Alternatives in Jewish Bioethics

Author: No?am Zohar

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780791432730

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A dialogue between contemporary, Western moral philosophy and the tradition of Legal/Moral Descourse (Halakha).

Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust
Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust

Author: Michael A. Grodin, M.D.

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2014-09-01

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1782384189

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Faced with infectious diseases, starvation, lack of medicines, lack of clean water, and safe sewage, Jewish physicians practiced medicine under severe conditions in the ghettos and concentration camps of the Holocaust. Despite the odds against them, physicians managed to supply public health education, enforce hygiene protocols, inspect buildings and latrines, enact quarantine, and perform triage. Many gave their lives to help fellow prisoners. Based on archival materials and featuring memoirs of Holocaust survivors, this volume offers a rich array of both tragic and inspiring studies of the sanctification of life as practiced by Jewish medical professionals. More than simply a medical story, these histories represent the finest exemplification of a humanist moral imperative during a dark hour of recent history.

Reasons of Conscience
Reasons of Conscience

Author: Stefan Sperling

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2013-04-12

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 0226924319

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In this volume, Stefan Sperling considers the bioethical debates surrounding embryonic stem cell research in Germany at the turn of the 21st century, highlighting how the country's ongoing struggle to come to terms with its past informs the decisions it makes today.

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality
The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality

Author: Elliot N. Dorff

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-01-23

Total Pages: 539

ISBN-13: 0190608382

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For thousands of years the Jewish tradition has been a source of moral guidance, for Jews and non-Jews alike. As the essays in this volume show, the theologians and practitioners of Judaism have a long history of wrestling with moral questions, responding to them in an open, argumentative mode that reveals the strengths and weaknesses of all sides of a question. The Jewish tradition also offers guidance for moral conduct by individuals, communities, and countries and shows how to motivate people to do the good and right thing. The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality is a collection of original essays addressing these topics--historical and contemporary, as well as philosophical and practical--by leading scholars from around the world. The first section of the volume describes the history of the Jewish tradition's moral thought, from the Bible to contemporary Jewish approaches. The second part includes chapters on specific fields in ethics, including the ethics of medicine, business, sex, speech, politics, war, and the environment.

Contemporary Issues in Bioethics
Contemporary Issues in Bioethics

Author: Tom L. Beauchamp

Publisher: Cengage Learning

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 776

ISBN-13:

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Offers a lucid overview of the central issues in bioethics today, including reproductive technologies, right-to-die, AIDS, eugenics, and human genetics. Presenting differing viewpoints from world-renowned scholars, this thought-provoking book provides an excellent framework for analyzing key issues.

Moral Responsibility in the Holocaust
Moral Responsibility in the Holocaust

Author: David H. Jones

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0585122016

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In Moral Responsibility in the Holocaust, David H. Jones goes beyond historical and psychological explanations of the Holocaust to directly address the moral responsibility of individuals involved in it. While defending the view that individuals caught up in large-scale historical events like the Holocaust are still responsible for their choices, he provides the philosophical tools needed to assess the responsibility, both negative and positive, of perpetrators, accomplices, bystanders, victims, helpers, and rescuers.

Confucian Bioethics
Confucian Bioethics

Author: Ruiping Fan

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-04-11

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0306468670

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This volume explores Confucian views regarding the human body, health, virtue, suffering, suicide, euthanasia, `human drugs,' human experimentation, and justice in health care distribution. These views are rooted in Confucian metaphysical, cosmological, and moral convictions, which stand in contrast to modern Western liberal perspectives in a number of important ways. In the contemporary world, a wide variety of different moral traditions flourish; there is real moral diversity. Given this circumstance, difficult and even painful ethical conflicts often occur between the East and the West with regard to the issues of life, birth, reproduction, and death. The essays in this volume analyze the ways in which Confucian bioethics can clarify important moral concepts, provide arguments, and offer ethical guidance. The volume should be of interest to both general readers coming afresh to the study of bioethics, ethics, and Confucianism, as well as for philosophers, ethicists, and other scholars already familiar with the subject.