Silence, scapegoats, self-reflection : : the shadow of Nazi medical crimes on medicine and bioethics / / Volker Roelcke, Sascha Topp, Etienne Lepicard (eds.).

Biographische InformationenDr. Etienne Lepicard is a researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prof. Dr. Volker Roelcke is director of the Institute for the History of Medicine, Giessen University. Dr. Sascha Topp works at the Institute for the history of medicine, University of Giessen. Rei...

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Superior document:Formen der Erinnerung ; Band 59
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Place / Publishing House:Göttingen, Germany : : V&R unipress,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Formen der Erinnerung ; Band 59.
Physical Description:1 online resource (380 p.)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Jürgen Reulecke: Preface; Volker Roelcke, Sascha Topp, Etienne Lepicard: Introduction: Conflicting Values in Medicine and Bioethics; Post-War Trials: Setting Stages, Structuring Narratives; Paul Weindling: Consent, Care and Commemoration: The Nuremberg Medical Trial and Its Legacies for Victims of Human Experiments; The "Nuremberg Code"; Towards a code; "Enlightened Consent"; Legacies; Etienne Lepicard: The Nuremberg Medical Trial and Its Reception in France and Israel, 1947-1952: A Comparative Perspective; Introduction
  • Some background and chronologySources and method, or the protagonists of the story; The French reception of the NMT (1946-1947), or euthanasia as a human experiment; Israeli reception of the NMT (1946/47), collective voice or personal involvements?; A. A journal's special issue (1946) on "The struggle for life and health within the ghettos under Nazi occupation"; B. The NMT in the mirror of the Israeli press; C. The "Jerusalem Declaration (1952)" in context; Conclusion; Annette Weinke: Judging Medical Crimes in Divided Germany; Introduction; Medical trials under Allied occupation
  • "Cold war medicine" and failed attempts for justiceMemories, Concerns, and Legal Issues of the Victims; Helmut Bader: The Voice of the Victims and their Families: The Case of Martin Bader; Family background; Autobiography; Letters from the Schussenried psychiatric asylum; Documents on euthanasia; Post-war documents; Rolf Surmann: Rehabilitation and Indemnification for the Victims of Forced Sterilization and "Euthanasia". The West German Policies of "Compensation" ("Wiedergutmachung"); Preliminary remarks; The basic constellation; Correctional approaches and new orientations in society
  • Rehabilitation without equivalent progress in indemnificationProfessional Organizations; Gerrit Hohendorf: The Sewering Affair; On the difficulty to appreciate a former president of the German Medical Association and not to deny his Nazi past; The Sewering affair 1992/1993; Franzblau's account of the Sewering case; Sewering's own account of the story; The story in the view of Schönbrunn and church authorities; Historical sources; Conclusion; Sascha Topp: Shifting Cultures of Memory: The German Society of Pediatrics in Confrontation with Its Nazi Past
  • The debate about Catel and "child euthanasia" at the DGK: 1960 to 19671960: Gerhard Joppich's chairmanship - The beginning of the Catel dispute; 1961/1962: Bamberger's chairmanship - A first statement on Nazi euthanasia; 1963: Bennholdt-Thomsen's chairmanship and the annual congress in Cologne; 1964-66: The chairmanships of Gerhard Weber, Hermann Mai and Adalbert Loeschke - "No intervening in a pending lawsuit"; 1981: The Tegernsee symposium "Ethical problems in pediatrics and related areas"; 1983: The centenary in Munich and the first steps towards dealing with the past; Conclusion
  • Donna Evleth: The French Medical Association (L'Ordre des Médecins) and the Nazi Past