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Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Before, During, and After the Holocaust
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2020
Summary
Unlike Nazi medical experiments, euthanasia during the Third Reich is barely studied or taught. Often, even asking whether euthanasia during the Third Reich is relevant to contemporary debates about physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia is dismissed as inflammatory. Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Before, During, and After the Holocaust explores the history of euthanasia before and during the Third Reich in depth and demonstrate how Nazi physicians incorporated mainstream Western philosophy, eugenics, population medicine, prevention, and other medical ideas into their ideology. This book reveals that euthanasia was neither forced upon physicians nor wantonly practiced by a few fanatics, but widely embraced by Western medicine before being sanctioned by the Nazis. Contributors then reflect on the significance of this history for contemporary debates about PAS and euthanasia. While they take different views regarding these practices, almost all agree that there are continuities between the beliefs that the Nazis used to justify euthanasia and the ideology that undergirds present-day PAS and euthanasia. This conclusion leads our scholars to argue that the history of Nazi medicine should make society wary about legalizing PAS or euthanasia and urge caution where it has been legalized.
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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-0949-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-0950-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
344
Product type
Edited Book
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 26
Chapter One. On a Slippery Slope: The Historical Debate on Euthanasia in Germany No access
Chapter Two. International and German Eugenics from ca. 1880 up to the Post–World War II Period: Medical Expertise—Political Ambition—Relations to Euthanasia in the Nazi Context No access
Chapter Three. Euthanasia in Nazi Germany: Children’s Euthanasia Program, Aktion T4, and Decentralized Killing No access
Chapter Four. Ethics and Ideology for Future Doctors: How Nazi Values Were Taught in the German Medical Curriculum 1939–1945 No access
Chapter Five. A Protagonist’s View of Euthanasia in the Netherlands Today No access
Chapter Six. The Case Against Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia No access
Chapter Seven. Palliative Medicine and the Debate on Physician-Assisted Death in Germany No access
Chapter Eight. Helping the Few: Historical Perspectives on Aid in Dying No access
Chapter Nine. Palliative Care, Hospice, and Last-Resort Options No access
Chapter Ten. Race and Physician-Assisted Death: Do Black Lives Matter? No access
Chapter Eleven. Understanding the Role of Suffering in Legalized Physician-Assisted Dying No access
Chapter Twelve. Physician Countertransference and Patient Requests for a Hastened Death No access
Chapter Thirteen. The Value of Life vs. the Principle of Autonomy No access
Chapter Fourteen. The Distinction Between Voluntary and Involuntary Euthanasia and the Critical Role of Eugenics No access
Chapter Fifteen. Euthanasia Old and New: Lives Not Worth Living and Unequal Respect for Autonomy No access
Chapter Sixteen. Can a Person Ever Be “Not Useful”? A Critical Analysis of the Anthropological Roots of Euthanasia under National Socialism and Today No access
Chapter Seventeen. The Best Physicians Are Destined for Hell No access
Chapter Eighteen. Pediatric Euthanasia: A Call for Civil Disobedience No access
Chapter Nineteen. “The Syringe Belongs in the Hand of a Physician”: Power, Authority, Control, Death, and the Patient-Physician Relationship No access
