Medicine after the Holocaust
Subtitle: from the master race to the human genome and beyond
By: edited by Sheldon Rubenfeld, in conjunction with the Holocaust Museum Houston
Contributors: Holocaust Museum Houston
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780230618947; 9780230621923
Subjects: National Socialism; Genomprojekt; Holocaust; Drittes Reich; Medicine; World War, 1939-1945; Medical care; Medical ethics; History; Clinical Medicine; Physicians; World War II; Medizinische Ethik; Medical Ethics; History, 20th Century; Atrocities; Nationalsozialismus
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mode of access: Internet.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: This past must not be prologue / Francis S. Collins; title: Introduction / Sheldon Rubenfeld; title: pt. 1. Eugenics, euthanasia, extermination. When evil was good and good evil: remembrances of Nuremberg / Edmund D. Pellegrino; title: Medicine during the Nazi period: historical facts and some implications for teaching medical ethics and professionalism / Volker Roelcke; title: Academic medicine during the Nazi period: the implications for creating awareness of professional responsibility today / William Seidelman; title: Misconceptions of "race" as a biological category: then and now / Theresa M. Duello; title: Mad, bad, or evil: how physician healers turn to torture and murder / Michael A. Grodin; title: Genetic diversity has prevailed, not the master race / Ferid Murad; title: pt. 2. Medicine after the Holocaust. Genetics and eugenics: a personal odyssey / James D. Watson; title: The stain of silence: Nazi ethics and bioethics / Arthur L. Caplan; title: The legacy of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial to American bioethics and human rights / George J. Annas; title: A more perfect human: the promise and the peril of modern science / Leon R. Kass; title: What does "medicine after the Holocaust" have to do with aid in dying? / Kathryn L. Tucker; title: Is physician-assisted suicide ever permissible? / Wesley J. Smith; title: Cinematic perspectives on euthanasia and assisted suicide / Glen O. Gabbard; title: Science, medicine, and religion in and after the Holocaust / John M. Haas; title: Why science and religion need to cooperate to prevent a recurrence of the Holocaust / Irving Greenberg; title: The status of the relationship between the citizen and the government / Ward Connerly; title: From Nuremberg to the human genome: the right of human research participants / Henry T. Greely; title: Medical professionalism: lessons from the Holocaust / Jordan J. Cohen; title: Assessing risk in patient care / George Paul Noon; title: Jewish medical ethics and risky treatments / Avraham Steinberg; title: Afterword / Michael E. DeBakey; title: Appendix A: additional information.