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Silence, Scapegoats, Self-reflection
The Shadow of Nazi Medical Crimes on Medicine and Bioethics
Volker Roelcke,Sascha Topp,Etienne Lepicard
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Silence, Scapegoats, Self-reflection
The Shadow of Nazi Medical Crimes on Medicine and Bioethics
Volker Roelcke,Sascha Topp,Etienne Lepicard
About This Book
Since the end of World War II, Nazi medical atrocities have been a topic of ambivalent reactions and debates, both in Germany and internationally: An early period of silence was followed by attempts of victims and representatives of medical organisations to describe what happened. Varying narratives developed, some of which had a stabilizing function for the identity of the profession, whereas others had a critical and de-stabilizing function. In today's international debates in the field of medical ethics, there are frequent references to Nazi medical atrocities, in particular in the context of discussions about research on human subjects, and on euthanasia. The volume analyses the narratives on Nazi medical atrocities, their historicity in different stages of post-war medicine, as well as in the international discourse on biomedical ethics.
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- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Body
- JĂŒrgen Reulecke: Preface
- Volker Roelcke, Sascha Topp, Etienne Lepicard: Introduction: Conflicting Values in Medicine and Bioethics
- Post-War Trials: Setting Stages, Structuring Narratives
- Paul Weindling: Consent, Care and Commemoration: The Nuremberg Medical Trial and Its Legacies for Victims of Human Experiments
- Etienne Lepicard: The Nuremberg Medical Trial and Its Reception in France and Israel, 1947â1952: A Comparative Perspective
- Annette Weinke: Judging Medical Crimes in Divided Germany
- Memories, Concerns, and Legal Issues of the Victims
- Helmut Bader: The Voice of the Victims and their Families: The Case of Martin Bader
- Rolf Surmann: Rehabilitation and Indemnification for the Victims of Forced Sterilization and âEuthanasiaâ. The West German Policies of âCompensationâ (âWiedergutmachungâ)
- Professional Organizations
- Gerrit Hohendorf: The Sewering Affair
- Sascha Topp: Shifting Cultures of Memory: The German Society of Pediatrics in Confrontation with Its Nazi Past
- Donna Evleth: The French Medical Association (L'Ordre des MĂ©decins) and the Nazi Past
- Rakefet Zalashik: Nazi Medical Atrocities and the Israeli Medical Discourse from the 1940s to the 1990s
- Past and Present: Debates on Implications for Professionalism and Ethics in Medicine
- James Kennedy: The Legacy of National Socialism for the Dutch Euthanasia Debate
- Isabelle von Bueltzingsloewen: Starvation in French Mental Hospitals under Nazi Occupation: Misinterpretations and Instrumentalization since 1945
- Volker Roelcke: Between Professional Honor and Self-Reflection: The German Medical Association's Reluctance to Address Medical Malpractice during the National Socialist Era, ca. 1985â2012
- Dedicated Voices
- William E. Seidelman: `Requiescat sine Pace': Recollections and Reflections on the World Medical Association, the Case of Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Sewering and the Murder of Babette Fröwis
- Michael Wunder: Learning with History: Nazi Medical Crimes and Today's Debates on Euthanasia in Germany
- Appendix (Documentation)
- Jewish Medical Association of Palestine. Motion to the World Medical Association (1947). With an Introduction by Etienne Lepicard
- Bund der âEuthanasieâ-GeschĂ€digten und Zwangssterilisierten / BEZ (Federation of Victims of âEuthanasiaâ and Forced Sterilization) (2008)
- BundesĂ€rztekammer / BĂK (German Medical Association) (2008)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft fĂŒr Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Nervenheilkunde / DGPPN (German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Nervous Disorders) (2008)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft fĂŒr Kinder- und Jugendmedizin / DGKJ (German Association of Child and Adolescent Medicine) (2008)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft fĂŒr SozialpĂ€diatrie und Jugendmedizin / DGSPJ (German Association for Social Pedicatrics and Youth Medicine) (2008)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft fĂŒr Kinder- und Jugendmedizin / DGKJ (German Association of Child and Adolescent Medicine) (2010)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft fĂŒr Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Nervenheilkunde / DGPPN (German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Nervous Disorders) (2010)
- Deutscher Ărztetag (German Medical Assembly): The Nuremberg Declaration (2012)
- Contributors
- Illustrations
- Index of Persons and Selected Institutions