When medicine went mad: bioethics and the Holocaust

Eighteen essays are arranged into 5 sections: "Testimonies"; "Medicine, bioethics, and Nazism"; "The use of information from Nazi experiments': the case of Hypothermia; "Medical killing and euthanasia: then and now"; and "The abuse of medicine and the legacy of the Holocaust." The work results from a 1989 conference to address matters such as the value of bioethics in light of the moral rationale given by Nazi doctors, the very development of such immoral justifications within an otherwise advanced scientific community, the use or destruction of experimental data that may be invalid in any case, comparing life-support interruption with Nazi euthanasia, and monitoring the Human Genome Project for racist eugenics.