Bioethics and the Holocaust

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. The Question of Relevance

   • Michael Berenbaum

   Pages 1-11Open Access

3. Teaching Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany: Debunking the Myth that the Nazi Physicians Abandoned Their Ethics

   • Tessa Chelouche

   Pages 13-34Open Access

4. The Role of Professions in a State: The Effects of the Nazi Experience on Health Care Professionalism

   • Robert Baker, Matthew K. Wynia

   Pages 35-58Open Access

5. The Physician’s Role: Patient v. Population

   • David K. Urion

   Pages 59-70Open Access

6. The Transformation of Physicians from Healers to Killers: The Role of Psychiatry

   • Susan M. Miller, Stacy Gallin

   Pages 71-91Open Access

7. The Physician at War

   • Sheena M. Eagan, Zohar Lederman

   Pages 93-107Open Access

8. Medicalization of Social Policies: Defining Health, Defining Illness

   • Amanda M. Caleb

   Pages 109-127Open Access

9. Bioethics and the Krankenmorde: Disability and Diversity

   • Edwina Light, Michael Robertson, Wendy Lipworth, Garry Walter, Miles Little

   Pages 129-152Open Access

10. Race, Eugenics, and the Holocaust

    • Jonathan Anomaly

    Pages 153-171Open Access

11. Physician-Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, and Bioethics in Nazi and Contemporary Cinema

    • Sheldon Rubenfeld, Daniel P. Sulmasy

    Pages 173-208Open Access

12. Godwin’s Law and the Limits of Bioethics and Holocaust Studies

    • Ira Bedzow

    Pages 209-218Open Access

13. From the Nuremberg “Doctors’ Trial” to the “Nuremberg Code”

    • Paul Weindling

    Pages 219-228Open Access

14. The Holocaust as an Inflection Point in the Development of Research Ethics

    • Stacy Gallin, Ira Bedzow

    Pages 229-246Open Access

15. The Rights and Responsibilities of the Physician to Uphold Bioethical Values in Society

    • Ashley K. Fernandes

    Pages 247-259Open Access

16. Bioethics and the Holocaust in a Multicultural Context

    • Filotheos-Fotios Maroudas, Barnabas Grigoriadis

    Pages 261-279Open Access

17. Medicine, the Holocaust, and Human Dignity: Lessons from Human Rights

    • Jason Adam Wasserman, Mark Christopher Navin

    Pages 281-297Open Access

18. The Goals of Medicine in a Post-Holocaust Society

    • Stacy Gallin

    Pages 299-317Open Access

19. Back Matter

    Pages 319-323

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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.

• Bioethics
• History of German Medical Ethics
• History of Bioethics
• Current Issues in Bioethics
• Bioethics and the Holocaust
• The Future of Medicine
• Lessons Learned from the Holocaust
• Human Rights and Human Dignity
• Open Access

• Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics and the Holocaust, Marlboro, USA

  Stacy Gallin

• Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, USA

  Ira Bedzow

Stacy Gallin is the Founding Director of the Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics and the Holocaust (MIMEH), a member of the Governing Council, Co-Chair of the Department of Bioethics and the Holocaust and Faculty of the Department of Education of the International Chair of Bioethics (a World Medical Association Cooperation Centre), and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University.  She received her doctoral degree in Medical Humanities from Drew University and has worked closely with many internationally recognized organizations to raise awareness regarding the relevance of medicine, ethics and the Holocaust for modern medical practice, healthcare policy and human rights endeavors.  Dr. Gallin’s academic interests also include the medicalization of psychiatry, the role of human dignity in healthcare and the development of mechanisms to engage youth in social advocacy and the promotion of equality, justice, and dignity.

Ira Bedzow is the Director of The MirYam Institute Project on International Ethics & Leadership and Head of the International Chair in Bioethics Unit (a World Medical Association Cooperation Centre) at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University. He holds a PhD in Religion from Emory University and a Masters degree from University of Chicago. His interests relate to understanding the ethical implications of biotechnology and healthcare policy as well as how organizations can create an ethical culture through values-driven leadership. Bedzow is also Senior Scholar of the Aspen Center for Social Values, co-director of the Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics and the Holocaust (MIMEH), a contributor at the MirYam Institute, and a regular contributor in Forbes for their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion section. He is also an Orthodox rabbi (yoreh yoreh, yadin yadin).