Medicine after the Holocaust From the Master Race to the Human Genom
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 professional ethics.
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Previously published by Sheldon Rubenfeld: Could It Be My Thyroid?
Medicine after the Holocaust From the Master Race to the Human Genome and Beyond
Edited by
Sheldon Rubenfeld In Conjunction with the Holocaust Museum Houston
medicine after the holocaust Copyright © Sheldon Rubenfeld, 2010 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2010 978-0-230-61894-7 All rights reserved. First published in 2010 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States - a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the World, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–0–230–62192–3 (paperback) ISBN 978-0-230-62192-3 ISBN 978-0-230-10229-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230102293 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress.
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Portions of Chapter 7, “Genetic and Eugenics,” are from A Passion for DNA: Genes, Genomes and Society, pp. 3–5, 179–208, 209–222, by James D. Watson, Cold Spring c James. D. Watson. Reprinted with permission of Harbor Laboratory Press 2000. James D. Watson. Chapter 5, “Mad, Bad, or Evil: How Physicians Healers Turn to Torture and Murder” was discussed and published in “Physicians and Torture: Lessons from the Nazi Doctors,” by Michael A. Grodin and George Annas, International Review of the Red Cross, c International CommitVolume 89, Issue 867, September 2007, pp. 635–654. tee of the Red Cross 2007. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press. Chapter 9, “The Legacy of the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial to American Bioethics and Human Rights,” is adapted and updated from the final chapter of American Bioethics: Crossing Human Rights and Health Law Boundaries , pp. 159–166, by George Annas, by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc. 2004. Excerpt from “Little Gidding” in FOUR QUARTETS, copyright 1942 by T.S. Eliot and renewed 1970 by Esme Valerie Eliot, reprinted with permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Excerpt from “Little Gidding” in Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot reprinted with permission of Faber and Faber Ltd. Figure 5.1. The Defendants’ Box at the Doctors’ Trial; Figure 5.2. Adolf Hitler as the Physician to the German People; Figure 5.3. “You Are Sharing the Load!”; Figure 10.1. Glass Man; and Figure 10.2. Maimed soldiers in Plötzensee near Berlin, summer 1916 are reprinted courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The photograph on the cover is reprinted courtesy of the Holocaust Museum Houston.
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