Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany

Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany

Author: Francis R. Nicosia

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2002-05-01

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 085745692X

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The participation of German physicians in medical experiments on innocent people and mass murder is one of the most disturbing aspects of the Nazi era and the Holocaust. Six distinguished historians working in this field are addressing the critical issues raised by these murderous experiments, such as the place of the Holocaust in the larger context of eugenic and racial research, the motivation and roles of the German medical establishment, and the impact and legacy of the eugenics movements and Nazi medical practice on physicians and medicine since World War II. Based on the authors' original scholarship, these essays offer an excellent and very accessible introduction to an important and controversial subject. They are also particularly relevant in light of current controversies over the nature and application of research in human genetics and biotechnology.


Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany

Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany

Author: Francis R. Nicosia

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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The participation of German physicians in medical experiments on innocent people and mass murder is one of the most disturbing aspects of the Nazi era and the Holocaust. These six essays address the critical issues raised by these experiments.


Death of Medicine in Nazi Germany

Death of Medicine in Nazi Germany

Author: Wolfgang Weyers

Publisher: Madison Books

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13:

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Only one generation ago, the world watched as highly trained physicians abandoned medical ethics in response to the Nazi regime. Weyers' book takes an in-depth look at the circumstances which allowed this to happen and the steps necessary to ensure such genocide never happens again.


Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials

Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials

Author: P. Weindling

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-10-29

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 0230506054

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This book offers a radically new and definitive reappraisal of Allied responses to Nazi human experiments and the origins of informed consent. It places the victims and Allied Medical Intelligence officers at centre stage, while providing a full reconstruction of policies on war crimes and trials related to Nazi medical atrocities and genocide.


Racial Hygiene

Racial Hygiene

Author: Robert Proctor

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780674745780

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This book focuses on how scientists themselves participated in the construction of Nazi racial policy. Proctor demonstrates that many of the political initiatives of the Nazis arose from within the scientific community, and that medical scientists actively designed and administered key elements of National Socialist policy.


Murderous Medicine

Murderous Medicine

Author: Naomi Baumslag

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780275983123

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More than 1.5 million concentration camp prisoners died of typhus, a preventable disease. Despite advances in public health measures to control and prevent typhus outbreaks, German doctors, fueled by their racist ideology and their medieval approach to the disease, used the disease as a form of biological warfare against Jews, Slavs, and gypsies. Jewish hospitals in ghettos were burned--along with patients and staff--if typhus was present. In concentration camps, even suspected typhus cases were killed in the gas chambers or through intracardiac injections. Typhus vaccines were tested on prisoners deliberately infected with typhus. Only a handful of doctors were ever prosecuted for their crimes. Against all odds, Jewish health providers struggled to avoid the worst through innovative steps to save lives. Despite the removal of their equipment, drugs, and other resources, they organized health care and sanitary hygienic measures. Doctors were forced to conceal cases, falsify diagnoses and cause of death in order to save lives. This important study explores the role of the International Red Cross in typhus epidemics during and after World War I and World War II. It details the widespread complicity of foreign companies in the Nazi typhus research. Finally, the author stresses the importance of monitoring and holding accountable the medical profession, researchers, and drug companies that continue to invest in research on biological agents as weapons of war.


Justice at Nuremberg

Justice at Nuremberg

Author: U. Schmidt

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-06-30

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0230505244

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This book traces the history of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial of 1946-47, through the eyes of the Austrian émigré psychiatrist Leo Alexander, whose investigations helped the US prosecution. Schmidt provides a detailed insight into the origins of human rights in medical science and into the changing role of international law, ethics and politics.


Medicine after the Holocaust

Medicine after the Holocaust

Author: S. Rubenfeld

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-01-04

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0230102298

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Rubenfeld and the contributors to this collection posit that German physicians betrayed the Hippocratic Oath when they chose knowledge over wisdom, the state over the individual, a führer over God, and personal gain over professional ethics.


The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code

The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code

Author: George J. Annas

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 9780195101065

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This important new work surveys the source and ramifications of the famed Nuremburg Code -- recognized around the world as one of the cornerstones of modern bioethics.


Medical Jurisprudence and Rules of the Medical Profession

Medical Jurisprudence and Rules of the Medical Profession

Author: Rudolf Ramm

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-11-18

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 3030252450

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The Nazi Viewpoint on the Position and Responsibilities of the Physician in the German National Socialist Society. This work is translated, annotated and introduced by Melvin Wayne Cooper. This is the first translation in English of Rudolf Ramm’s textbook Ärztliche Rechts- und Standeskunde: Der Arzt als Gesundheitserzieher, translated and introduced by Melvin Wayne Cooper. Medical Jurisprudence and Rules of the Medical Profession has been reported to be an influential manual for medical ethics in Nazi Germany and is commonly quoted as representing the Nazi viewpoint of the position and responsibilities of the physician in the National Socialist society. It interprets the National Socialist Weltanschauung, i.e. the National Socialist Philosophical Worldview, and makes explicit how this world view was to be actuated by the true National Socialist physician. It is a good text to attempt to see the National Socialist medical world view from the perspective of its practitioners. Ramm’s text could be viewed as being analogous to an Army Field Manual for the practicing National Socialist physician. It dictates the specific applications of the legal values and rules which emanate from this Weltanschauung to the developing medical students and practicing National Socialist physicians. According to some scholars Ramm’s book, which was written not only for students but also for postgraduates, and which received positive reviews in German medical journals, is the most important known historical source pertaining to the instruction of Nazi medical ethics. The 1942 edition sold out within a year, and a second edition published in 1943 included an extended appendix of medical laws. Through this book Ramm’s unique text is now available for an English language audience, thanks to the thorough translation and accessible introduction by Melvin Wayne Cooper.