Medical Science Under Dictatorship
Author: Leo Alexander
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780930429034
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Author: Leo Alexander
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780930429034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lawrence A. Zeidman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020-04
Total Pages: 785
ISBN-13: 0198728638
DOWNLOAD EBOOK80 years ago the greatest mass murder of human beings of all time occurred in Nazi occupied Europe. This began with the mass extermination of patients with neurological and psychiatric disorders. This book is the only comprehensive and scholarly published work regarding the ethical and professional abuses of neuroscientists during the Nazi era.
Author: Dieter Hoffmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 483
ISBN-13: 1107006848
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book details the effects of the Nazi regime on the German Physical Society.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Health
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 1220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dolores L. Augustine
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 0262012367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis analysis of the relationship between science and totalitarian rule in one of the most technically advanced countries in the East bloc examines professional autonomy under dictatorship and the place of technology in Communist ideology. In Cold War-era East Germany, the German tradition of science-based technology merged with a socialist system that made technological progress central to its ideology. Technology became an important part of East German socialist identity--crucial to how Communists saw their system and how citizens saw their state. In Red Prometheus, Dolores Augustine examines the relationship between a dictatorial system and the scientific and engineering communities in East Germany from the end of the Second World War through the 1980s. Drawing on newly opened archives and extensive interviews, Augustine looks in detail at individual scientists' interactions with the East German system, examining the effectiveness of their resistance against the party's totalitarian impulses. She explains why many German scientists and engineers who were deported to the Soviet Union after World War II returned to East Germany rather than defecting to the capitalist West, traces scientists' attempts to hold on to some aspects of professional autonomy, and describes challenges to their professional identity on the factory floor. Augustine examines the quality of science and technology produced under Communist rule, looking at failed research projects and clashing cultures of innovation. She looks at technological myth-building in science fiction and propaganda. She explores individual career strategies, including the role played by gender in high-tech professions, and the ways that both enterprises and individuals responded to increasing state and party control of research during the 1980s. We cannot understand the economic choices made by East Germany, Augustine argues, unless we understand the cultural values reflected in the East German belief in technology as indispensable to progress and industrial development.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Health
Publisher:
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 466
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Health
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 1434
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Robertson
Publisher: UTS ePRESS
Published: 2019-10-22
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0648124231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnder the Nazi regime a secret program of ‘euthanasia’ was undertaken against the sick and disabled. Known as the Krankenmorde (the murder of the sick) 300,000 people were killed. A further 400,000 were sterilised against their will. Many complicit doctors, nurses, soldiers and bureaucrats would then perpetrate the Holocaust. From eyewitness accounts, records and case files, The First into the Dark narrates a history of the victims, perpetrators, opponents to and witnesses of the Krankenmorde, and reveals deeper implications for contemporary society: moral values and ethical challenges in end of life decisions, reproduction and contemporary genetics, disability and human rights, and in remembrance and atonement for the past.
Author: Neil McGill Gorsuch
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0691124582
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter assessing the strengths and weaknesses of arguments for assisted suicide and euthanasia, Gorsuch builds a nuanced, novel, and powerful moral and legal argument against legalization, one based on a principle that, surprisingly, has largely been overlooked in the debate; the idea that human life is intrinsically valuable and that intentional killing is always wrong. At the same time, the argument Gorsuch develops leaves wide latitude for individual patient autonomy and the refusal of unwanted medical treatment and life-sustaining care, permitting intervention only in cases where an intention to kill is present.
Author: James M. Humber
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-03-09
Total Pages: 645
ISBN-13: 1461565618
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the past few years, an increasing number of colleges and universities have added courses in biomedical ethics to their curricula. To some extent, these additions serve to satisfy student demands for "relevance. " But it is also true that such changes reflect a deepening desire on the part of the academic community to deal effectively with a host of problems which must be solved if we are to have a health-care delivery system which is efficient, humane, and just. To a large degree, these problems are the unique result of both rapidly changing moral values and dramatic advances in biomedical technology. The past decade has witnessed sudden and conspicuous controversy over the morality and legality of new practices relating to abortion, therapy for the mentally ill, experimentation using human subjects, forms of genetic interven tion, and euthanasia. Malpractice suits abound, and astronomical fees for malpractice insurance threaten the very possibility of medical and health-care practice. Without the backing of a clear moral consensus, the law is frequently forced into resolving these conflicts only to see the moral issues involved still hotly debated and the validity of the existing law further questioned. Take abortion, for example. Rather than settling the legal issue, the Supreme Court's original abortion decision in Roe v. Wade (1973), seems only to have spurred further legal debate. And of course, whether or not abortion is a mo rally ac ceptable procedure is still the subject of heated dispute.