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 - Francis S. Collins * Introduction - Sheldon Rubenfeld *PART I: EUGENICS, EUTHANASIA, EXTERMINATION * When Evil Was Good and Good Evil: Remembrance of Nuremberg - Edmund D. Pellegrino * Medicine During the Nazi Period: Historical Facts, and Some Implications for Teaching Medical Ethics and Professionalism - Volker Roelcke * Academic Medicine During the Nazi Period:The Implications for Creating Awareness of Professional Responsibility Today - William Seidelman * >From Long Island to Auschwitz - Edwin Black * Misconceptions of ""Race"" as a Biological Category: Then and Now - Theresa M. Duello *Mad, Bad, or Evil: How Physician Healers Turn to Torture and Murder - MichaelA. Grodin * Genetic Diversity Has Prevailed, Not The Master Race - Ferid Murad * PART II: MEDICINE AFTER THE HOLOCAUST * Genetics and Eugenics: A Personal Odyssey - James D. Watson * The Stain of Silence: Nazi ethics and Bioethics - Arthur L. Caplan * The Legacy of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial to American Bioethics and Human Rights - George J. Annas * A More Perfect Human: The Promise and Peril of Modern Science - Leon R. Kass * What Does ""Medicine After The Holocaust"" Have To Do With Aid in Dying? - Kathryn L. Tucker * Is Physician-Assisted Suicide Ever Permissible? - Wesley J. Smith * Cinematic Perspectives on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide - Glen O. Gabbard * Science, Medicine and Religion in and after the Holocaust - John M. Haas * Why Science and Religion Need to Cooperate to Prevent a Recurrence of the Holocaust - Irving Greenberg * TheStatus of the Relationship Between the Citizen and the Government - Ward Connerly * From Nuremberg to the Human Genome: The Rights of Participants in HumanResearch - Henry T. Greely * Medical Professionalism: Lessons from the Holocaust - Jordan J. Cohen * Assessing Risk in Patient Care - George Paul Noon * Jewish Medical Ethics and Risky Treatments - Avraham Steinberg * Afterword - Michael E. DeBakey

• ISBN: 978-0-230-62192-3
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 10/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés