Human Subjects Research after the Holocaust

From the book reviews: "The book makes many valuable and previously little-known contributions to the understanding of relationships between medicine and research during the Nazi period and ethical implications for today. Summing Up: Recommended. Bioethics collections serving upper-division undergraduates and above." (M. D. Lagerwey, Choice, Vol. 52 (7), March, 2015)

• Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Foreword.- 1. Introduction: How Did It Go So Wrong?.- 2. Twin Experiments at Auschwitz: A First-Person Account.- 3. Eugenics and Racial Hygiene: Applied Research Strategies before, during, and after National Socialism.- 4. Medical Ethics and Medical Research on Human Beings in National Socialism.- 5. Sulfonamide Experiments on Prisoners in Nazi Concentration Camps: Coherent Scientific Rationality Combined with Complete Disregard of Humanity.- 6. Stages of Transgression: Anatomical Research in National Socialism.- 7. Nurses and Human Subjects Research during the Third Reich and Now.- 8. Involuntary Abortion and Coercive Research on Pregnant Forced Laborers in National Socialism.- 9. Abusive Medical Practices on “Euthanasia” Victims in Austria during and after World War II.- 10. Medical Research and National Socialist Euthanasia: Carl Schneider and the Heidelberg Research Children 1942 until 1945.- 11. Victims of Human Experiments and Coercive Research under National Socialism: Gender and Racial Aspects.- 12. The White Rose: Resisting National Socialism.- 13. The Origins and Impact of the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial.- 14. In the Shadow of Nuremberg: Unlearned Lessons from the Medical Trial.- 15. The Ethics of Medical Experiments: Have We Learned the Lessons of Tuskegee and the Holocaust?.- 16. Human Subjects Research during and after the Holocaust: Typhus Vaccine Development and the Legacy of Gerhard Rose.- 17. Ethics in Space Medicine: Holocaust Beginnings, the Present, and the Future.- 18. Reproduction Then and Now: Learning from the Past.- 19. Promoting Clinical Research and Avoiding Bad Medicine: A Clinical Research Curriculum.- 20. The Psychophysiology of Attribution: Why Appreciative Respect Can Keep us Safe.- 21. Confronting Medicine during the Nazi Period: Autobiographical Reflections.- 22. Teaching the Holocaust to Medical Students: A Reflection on Pedagogy and Medical Ethics.- 23. No Exceptions, No Excuses: ATestimonial.- Index.