TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1989//
TI  - The meaning of the Holocaust for bioethics
JO  - Hastings center report
A1  - Caplan, Arthur L.
SP  - 2
EP  - 3
VL  - 19
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0093-0334
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -