German doctors apologise for the crimes perpetrated by Nazi doctors

2013 ◽  
Vol 198 (3) ◽  
pp. 162-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
George M Weisz
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1987 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 86-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Barry
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1989 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-51
Author(s):  
A. H. Williams
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Isis ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 555-556
Author(s):  
Charles G. Roland
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2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-252
Author(s):  
Daan de Leeuw

Abstract During the Second World War over two hundred and fifty German doctors conducted medical experiments on human beings. Jurists and scholars have pondered ever since how doctors educated to heal could harm and even kill. Robert Jay Lifton has argued that psychological “doubling” could explain their crimes: their Faustian bargain with Nazism outweighed their Hippocratic Oath. Here the author argues, however, that Lifton’s theory does not apply to these Nazi doctors because there is no indication that they recognized ethical constraints against human experimentation. To explain how “healers became killers,” the author focuses on the broader historical aspects of their behavior.


1994 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Eugene Feingold ◽  
George J. Annas ◽  
Michael A. Grodin
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