When Medicine Went Mad : Bioethics and the Holocaust /

In When Medicine Went Mad, one of the nation's leading bioethicists-and an extraordinary panel of experts and concentration camp survivors-examine problems first raised by Nazi medical experimentation that remain difficult and relevant even today. The importance of these issues to contemporary...

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Main Author: Caplan, Arthur L.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint : Humana Press, 1992.
Series:Contemporary issues in biomedicine, ethics, and society.
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Summary:In When Medicine Went Mad, one of the nation's leading bioethicists-and an extraordinary panel of experts and concentration camp survivors-examine problems first raised by Nazi medical experimentation that remain difficult and relevant even today. The importance of these issues to contemporary bioethical disputes-particularly in the thorny areas of medical genetics, human experimentation, and euthanasia-are explored in detail and with sensitivity.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 359 pages)
ISBN:9781461204138 (electronic bk.)
1461204135 (electronic bk.)