Medicine after the Holocaust: from the master race to the human genome and beyond

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 professionalethics. INDICE: Foreword; F.S.Collins - Introduction; S.Rubenfeld - PART I: EUGENICS, EUTHANASIA, EXTERMINATION - When Evil Was Good and Good Evil: Remembrance of Nuremberg; E.D.Pellegrino - Medicine During the Nazi Period: Historical Facts, and Some Implications for Teaching Medical Ethics and Professionalism; V.Roelcke - Academic Medicine During the Nazi Period: The Implications for Creating Awareness of Professional Responsibility Today; W.Seidelman - From Long Island to Auschwitz; E.Black - Misconceptions of ""Race"" as a Biological Category: Then and Now; T.M.Duello - Mad, Bad, or Evil: How Physician Healers Turn toTorture and Murder; M.A.Grodin - Genetic Diversity Has Prevailed, Not The Master Race; F.Murad - PART II: MEDICINE AFTER THE HOLOCAUST - Genetics and Eugenics: A Personal Odyssey; J.D.Watson - The Stain of Silence: Nazi ethics and Bioethics; A.L.Caplan - The Legacy of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial to American Bioethics and Human Rights; G.J.Annas - A More Perfect Human: The Promise and Peril of Modern Science; L.R.Kass - What Does 'Medicine After The Holocaust' Have To Do With Aid in Dying?; K.L.Tucker - Is Physician-Assisted Suicide Ever Permissible?; W.J.Smith - Cinematic Perspectives on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide; G.O.Gabbard - Science, Medicine and Religion in and after the Holocaust;J.M.Haas - Why Science and Religion Need to Cooperate to Prevent a Recurrenceof the Holocaust; I.Greenberg - The Status of the Relationship Between the Citizen and the Government; W.Connerly - From Nuremberg to the Human Genome: TheRights of Participants in Human Research; H.T.Greely - Medical Professionalism: Lessons from the Holocaust; J.J.Cohen - Assessing Risk in Patient Care; G.P.Noon - Jewish Medical Ethics and Risky Treatments; A.Steinberg - Afterword; M.E.DeBakey

• ISBN: 978-0-230-61894-7
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 12/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés