Medicine during the Nazi period: historical facts and some implications for teaching medical ethics and professionalism
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Medicine during the Nazi period: historical facts and some implications for teaching medical ethics and professionalism
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number610.943/0003
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]07434b
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]New York, New York, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Palgrave Macmillan
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2010
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp17-28
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]9780230621923
NotesArticle from the book ' Medicine after the Holocaust' pp17-28
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
The attitudes, motivations and actual behavior of physicians and biomedical scientists during the Nazi period appear not to be Nazi specific but rather the expression of underlying widespread attitudes of medical professionals and biomedical researchers.
The Nazis promulgated a political program that claimed to be founded in biology, and that enabled medical scientists to differentiate between human beings according to their supposed biological value