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Medicine after the Holocaust

From the Master Race to the Human Genome and Beyond

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Editors:
  1. Sheldon Rubenfeld

    1. Baylor College of Medicine, USA

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Sheldon Rubenfeld
      Pages 1-8

  4. Medicine after the Holocaust

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    2. Genetics and Eugenics: A Personal Odyssey

      • James D. Watson
      Pages 71-81

    3. The Stain of Silence: Nazi Ethics and Bioethics

      • Arthur L. Caplan
      Pages 83-92

    4. The Legacy of the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial to American Bioethics and Human Rights

      • George J. Annas
      Pages 93-105

    5. A More Perfect Human: The Promise and the Peril of Modern Science

      • Leon R. Kass
      Pages 107-122

    6. What Does “Medicine after the Holocaust” Have to Do with Aid in Dying?

      • Kathryn L. Tucker
      Pages 123-133

    7. Is Physician-Assisted Suicide Ever Permissible?

      • Wesley J. Smith
      Pages 135-151

    8. Cinematic Perspectives on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

      • Glen O. Gabbard
      Pages 153-161

    9. Science, Medicine, and Religion in and after the Holocaust

      • John M. Haas
      Pages 163-170

    10. Why Science and Religion Need to Cooperate to Prevent a Recurrence of the Holocaust

      • Irving Greenberg
      Pages 171-179

    11. The Status of the Relationship between the Citizen and the Government

      • Ward Connerly
      Pages 181-183
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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.

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"Thought-provoking, even in areas well-trod in recent scholarship. Recommended." - CHOICE

"A timely and important tribute to all the human guinea pigs, and a stirring lesson to the conscience of the world to neveruse a person in experiments without informed consent." - Eva Mozes Kor, Survivor of the deadly experiments of Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death"

"Medicine After The Holocaust is a book brimming with wisdom. It stretches your mind - with an infinite array of tangible examples and superbly reasoned arguments - as it stretches your heart. Whether you are a physician or not, you read this book and you want to be a better person." - Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, Author of Jewish Literacy and A Code of Jewish Ethics: two volumes, You Shall Be Holy and Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

"This book offers important insights into the enduring question: how were doctors and medical personnel who were trained to heal and save lives able to become such an integral part of the murder process in Nazi Germany.Theprominent physicians and scientistswho contributed to this bookforce us to once againtograpple with difficult issues. Both those from the healing arts and those from outside of them will find themselves challenged by these essays." - Deborah E. Lipstadt, Ph.D., Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies, EmoryUniversity

"This is a stunning book. Quietly, it sets forth alarming accounts, and makes a steadily building argument. It brings a kind of awakening." - Michael Novak, internationally knowntheologian, author, and winner of the Templeton Prize in 1994

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  • Baylor College of Medicine, USA

    Sheldon Rubenfeld

About the editor

DR SHELDON RUBENFELD is a Clinical Professor of General Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, USA and a Fellow in both the American College of Physicians and the American College of Endocrinology.

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