%0 Journal Article
%T The meaning of the Holocaust for bioethics
%J Hastings center report
%D 1989
%A Caplan, Arthur L.
%V 19
%N 4
%P 2-3
%X Caplan reports on a May 1989 conference, sponsored by the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota, that examined the meaning of the Holocaust for contemporary bioethics. Five themes were discussed: the role that mainstream medicine and science played in the creation of the Nazi state; what German scientists and physicians thought and did in the name of eugenics and euthanasia; the moral rationales science and medicine used to justify involvement with genocide, euthanasia, and racism; contemporary use of Nazi data from concentration camp research; and the appropriate use of metaphors and analogies to the Nazi era in contemporary bioethical debates. Conference participants included Caplan, Robert Proctor, Benno Muller-Hill, Jay Katz, Ruth Macklin, Robert Pozos, and three survivors of Nazi experiments: Susan Seiler Vigorito, Eva Kor, and Robert Berger.<p /><p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences
%@ 0093-0334
%U http://dx.doi.org/