When medicine went mad : bioethics and the Holocaust / edited by Arthur L. Caplan.

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [1992], ©1992.

xii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Papers from a conference on May 17-19, 1989 at the University of Minnesota

Nazi experiments as viewed by a survivor of Mengele's experiments / Eva Mozes Kor -- A profile of Nazi medicine : the Nazi doctor : his methods and goals / Sara Seiler Vigorito -- The meaning of the Holocaust for bioethics / Gisela Kinopka -- Nazi biomedical policies / Robert N. Proctor -- Eugenics : the science and religion of the Nazis / Benno Müller-Hill -- How did medicine go so wrong? / Arthur L. Caplan -- Scientific inquiry and ethics : the Dachau data / Robert S. Pozos -- Nazi science : comments on the validation of the Dachau human hypothermia experiments / Robert L. Berger -- The Dachau hypothermia study : an ethical and scientific commentary / Jay Katz and Robert S. Pozos -- Moral analysis and the use of Nazi experimental results / Benjamin Freedman -- Can scientists use information derived from the concentration camps? : ancient answers to new questions / Velvl W. Greene

(contin.): Which way down the slippery slope? : Nazi medical killing and euthanasia today / Ruth Macklin -- The contemporary euthanasia movement and the Nazi euthanasia program : are there meaningful similarities? / Ronald E. Cranford -- The way they were, the way we are / Richard John Neuhaus -- Abuse of human beings for the sake of science / Jay Katz -- "Medspeak" for murder : the Nazi experience and the culture of medicine / William E. Seidelman -- Twin research at Auschwitz-Birkenau : implications for the use of Nazi data today / Nancy L. Segal -- The Human Genome Project in perspective : confronting our past to protect our future / George J. Annas.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-330) and index