| Some ethical dilemmas faced by Jewish doctors during the Holocaust. | |
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PMID: 16440865 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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The discourse on physicians and ethics in the Nazi regime usually refers to the violation of medical ethics by Nazi doctors who as a guild and as individuals applied their professional knowledge, training and status in order to facilitate murder and medical "experimentation". In the introduction to this article I will give a brief outline of this vast subject. In the main article I wish to bear witness to the Jewish physicians in the ghettos and the camps who tried to the best of their ability to apply their professional training according to ethical principles in order to prolong life as best as they could, despite being forced to exist and work under the most appalling conditions. These prisoner doctors were faced with impossible existential, ethical and moral dilemmas that they had not encountered beforehand. This paper addresses some of these ethical quandaries that these prisoner doctors had to deal with in trying to help their patients despite the extreme situations they found themselves in. This is an overview of some of these ethical predicaments and does not delve into each one separately for lack of space, but rather gives the reader food for thought. Each dilemma discussed deserves an analysis of its own in the context of professionalism and medical ethics today. |
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Authors:
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Tessa Chelouche |
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Type: Historical Article; Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Medicine and law Volume: 24 ISSN: 0723-1393 ISO Abbreviation: Med Law Publication Date: 2005 Dec |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2006-01-30 Completed Date: 2006-03-16 Revised Date: 2006-05-15 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8218185 Medline TA: Med Law Country: South Africa |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 703-16 Citation Subset: E; IM |
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The Program for the Study of Medicine and the Holocaust, Department of Medical Education, The Bruce Rappaport faculty of Medicine, The Technion-Institute of Technology, Haifa Israel. |
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History, 20th Century Holocaust* Humans Jews Physicians / ethics, history* Prisoners Survival |
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