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oapen-20.500.12657-573832022-07-14T03:02:41Z Bioethics and the Holocaust Gallin, Stacy Bedzow, Ira Bioethics History of German Medical Ethics History of Bioethics Current Issues in Bioethics Bioethics and the Holocaust The Future of Medicine Lessons Learned from the Holocaust Human Rights and Human Dignity bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAD Bio-ethics bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MQ Nursing & ancillary services::MQC Nursing bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNU Teaching of a specific subject bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health & preventive medicine This open access book offers a framework for understanding how the Holocaust has shaped and continues to shape medical ethics, health policy, and questions related to human rights around the world. The field of bioethics continues to face questions of social and medical controversy that have their roots in the lessons of the Holocaust, such as debates over beginning-of-life and medical genetics, end-of-life matters such as medical aid in dying, the development of ethical codes and regulations to guide human subject research, and human rights abuses in vulnerable populations. As the only example of medically sanctioned genocide in history, and one that used medicine and science to fundamentally undermine human dignity and the moral foundation of society, the Holocaust provides an invaluable framework for exploring current issues in bioethics and society today. This book, therefore, is of great value to all current and future ethicists, medical practitioners and policymakers – as well as laypeople. 2022-07-13T12:28:15Z 2022-07-13T12:28:15Z 2022 book ONIX_20220713_9783031019876_54 9783031019876 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57383 eng The International Library of Bioethics application/pdf n/a 978-3-031-01987-6.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-031-01987-6 Springer Nature Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-031-01987-6 10.1007/978-3-031-01987-6 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 9783031019876 Springer International Publishing 96 323 Cham open access
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This open access book offers a framework for understanding how the Holocaust has shaped and continues to shape medical ethics, health policy, and questions related to human rights around the world. The field of bioethics continues to face questions of social and medical controversy that have their roots in the lessons of the Holocaust, such as debates over beginning-of-life and medical genetics, end-of-life matters such as medical aid in dying, the development of ethical codes and regulations to guide human subject research, and human rights abuses in vulnerable populations. As the only example of medically sanctioned genocide in history, and one that used medicine and science to fundamentally undermine human dignity and the moral foundation of society, the Holocaust provides an invaluable framework for exploring current issues in bioethics and society today. This book, therefore, is of great value to all current and future ethicists, medical practitioners and policymakers – as well as laypeople.
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