German doctors apologise for the crimes perpetrated by Nazi doctors

2013 ◽  
Vol 199 (5) ◽  
pp. 326-327
Author(s):  
Peter M Winterton
Keyword(s):  
Nazi Doctors

Book Review: Two Reviews of: The Nazi Doctors

1987 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 86-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Barry
Keyword(s):  
Nazi Doctors

scholarly journals The Nazi Doctors

1989 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-51
Author(s):  
A. H. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Nazi Doctors

The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide. Robert Jay Lifton

Isis ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 555-556
Author(s):  
Charles G. Roland
Keyword(s):  
Nazi Doctors

“In the Name of Humanity”: Nazi Doctors and Human Experiments in German Concentration Camps

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-252
Author(s):  
Daan de Leeuw
Keyword(s):  
Hippocratic Oath ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Human Experimentation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
World War ◽  
Medical Experiments ◽  
Human Experiments ◽  
Nazi Doctors ◽  
Second World

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.

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