Human subjects research after the Holocaust.
TitleHuman subjects research after the Holocaust.
Call number179.7/0016
Object number04774
Place of publicationHouston, Texas, United States
PublisherSpringer
Year of publication
2014
Physical descriptionxvi,308p.,index
MaterialBook
ISBN9783319057019
Description
Discusses the misguided medical ethics of the Third Reich. States that while it is comforting to believe that Nazi physicians, nurses, and bioscientists were either incompetent, mad, or few in number, they were, in fact, the best in the world at the time, and the vast majority participated in the government program of "applied biology." They were not coerced to behave as they did-they enthusiastically exploited widely accepted eugenic theories to design horrendous medical experiments, gas chambers and euthanasia programs, which ultimately led to mass murder in the concentration camps.