Article ID: CBB964975352

Memory Unbound, Unfounded Memory? On Medicine, the Holocaust, and Bioethical Reflection (2021)

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Abstract The article deals with the notion that medical theories and practices played a significant role in the advent and execution of the Holocaust, and that bioethical lessons need to be drawn from this relation. Three underlying premises of this notion are critically assessed: First, that the importance of medicine for the Holocaust has been neglected by Holocaust scholarship; secondly, that there is a considerable empirical connection between Nazi medical crimes and the Holocaust; and thirdly, that this empirical connection represents a paradigmatic epistemological significance of medicine for the Holocaust. The article stresses that the Nazi medical crimes and the participation of physicians in inhumane research practices and mass murder were a significant aspect of Nazi history, but did not play a constitutive role in the extermination of European Jewry. For reasons of historical accuracy, as well as ethical specificity, they should, therefore, not simply be subsumed under the term Holocaust.

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Authors & Contributors
Zeidman, Lawrence A.
Weindling, Paul J.
Krischel, Matthis
Fangerau, Heiner
Stambolis, Barbara
Moll, Friedrich
Concepts
Medicine and politics
Nazism
Holocaust
Medicine and the military; medicine in war
Physicians; doctors
Jews
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Places
Germany
Austria
Cuba
Scotland
United States
Turkey
Institutions
The German Central Association of Homeopathic Physicians (DZVhA)
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