Nazi medicine: a historical and cultural approach. third part

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Horacio Riquelme U.

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Medical Practices under Nazism: A Historical-Cultural Approach
Abstract: The article develops an itemized study of tree main aspects in the medical practice and research during the "Third Reich":
1) "Race Science" and Euthanasia
2) Terminal experiments with human beings
3) Medical opposition to grimes against humanity
This historical-cultural approach will be complemented with the consideration of a "medicine without humanity" in following existential consequences:
a) The Nuremberg Doctor's Trial
b) Ethical problems of prisoners-doctors in concentration camps
c) Experiences of prisoners in concentration camps and the so-called KZ-Syndrome
This artiele emphatizes the relevance of a detailed know about this, often forgotten, landscape in the history of medicine because it is necessary to stand up to the serious challenges in medical ethics at the present time.

Keywords:
Medical history an ethics, Human rights and medical practice and research, Medicine under nazism

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Horacio Riquelme U., University of Hamburg

Doctor and Philosopher in Chile and Germany (Dr. med./Univ. Hamburg / Dr.phil./Univ. Bremen). Associate Professor of Social Psychiatry at the University of Hamburg and Professor in Social Therapy at the Technical University of Berlin.

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