Author : Arthur L. Caplan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1461204135
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.
Author : Sheldon Rubenfeld
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1793609500
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.
Author : No?am Zohar
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,76 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791432730
A dialogue between contemporary, Western moral philosophy and the tradition of Legal/Moral Descourse (Halakha).
Author : Stacy Gallin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3031019873
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.
Author : Michael A. Grodin, M.D.
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 22,69 MB
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1782384189
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.
Author : Stefan Sperling
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 37,29 MB
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0226924319
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.
Author : Elliot N. Dorff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 29,62 MB
Release : 2016-01-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0190608382
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.
Author : Tom L. Beauchamp
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN :
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.
Author : Laurie Zoloth
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,96 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807848289
The last several years have seen a sharpening of debate in the United States regarding the problem of steadily increasing medical expenditures, as well as inflation in health care costs, a scarcity of health care resources, and a lack of access for a grow
Author : John J. Michalczyk
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 37,42 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9781556127526
Amid all contemporary discussion of ethical issues in science, many ethicists, historians, Holocaust specialists and medical professionals strongly feel that we should understand the past in order to make more enlightened ethical decisions.
