Anyone who dares suggest the historical lessons which can be learned from the Holocaust, or from the victims' suffering, risks being labeled a heretic or a sensationalist bent on distorting history for personal gain. The reader should be aware that the moral climate in the Jewish community is unforgiving to those who find any redeeming merit from the Nazi horrors. This project was undertaken with the utmost caution. This paper addresses the serious ethical problems of using tainted data from experiments on patients who were murdered and tortured by the Nazis in the name of "research." In particular this paper will address: the scientific validity of the experiments the medical competence of the experimenters the social utility in using the experimental data case studies of proposed uses of the Nazi scientific data the policy consideration involved when scientists use immorally obtained data the condition and guidelines as to how and when the data is to be used and the issue from the victims' perspective. Is it ever appropriate to use data as morally repugnant as that which was extracted from victims of Nazism? If so, under what circumstances? These incidents prompt a number of questions for the scientific community. Several scientists who have sought to use the Nazi research have stirred soul-searching about the social responsibility and potential abuses of science. These studies and references frequently bear no disclaimer as to how the data was obtained. Many scholars are now discovering in reputable medical literature multiple references to Nazi experiments, or republished works of former SS doctors. But what is being said of the continued use of the Nazi doctors' medical research? Professional modern medicine has had little difficulty condemning the Nazi doctors as evil men. Since the Nuremberg trials, our society has had to confront the reality that the Nazi doctors were guilty of premeditated murder masqueraded as research. The Nuremberg trial of the doctors revealed evidence of sadistic human experiments conducted at the Dachau, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen concentration camps. Twenty doctors were charged with War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity. Nazi Medical Experimentation: Table of Contents| Photographs| Background & Overviewįollowing World War II, leading Nazi doctors were brought to justice before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.
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