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paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. PAPERBACK, near fine. RUBENFELD, SHELDON, ed. . Medicine after the Holocaust: from the master race to the human genome and beyond. Edited by Sheldon Rubenfeld, in conjunction with the Holocaust Museum Houston. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, stated First Edition, and 1st printing number line ending with 1, xxi, 233pp., . Rubenfeld argues that German doctors betrayed the Hippocratic Oath when they chose knowledge over wisdom and personal gain over professional ethics during Hitler's regime. He questions whether the best physicians of the 21st century can be certain that they would not do the same. - CONTENTS: Foreword: This past must not be prologue / Francis S. Collins -- Introduction / Sheldon Rubenfeld -- pt. 1. Eugenics, euthanasia, extermination. When evil was good and good evil: remembrances of Nuremberg / Edmund D. Pellegrino -- Medicine during the Nazi period: historical facts and some implications for teaching medical ethics and professionalism / Volker Roelcke -- Academic medicine during the Nazi period: the implications for creating awareness of professional responsibility today / William Seidelman -- Misconceptions of "race" as a biological category: then and now / Theresa M. Duello -- Mad, bad, or evil: how physician healers turn to torture and murder / Michael A. Grodin -- Genetic diversity has prevailed, not the master race / Ferid Murad -- pt. 2. Medicine after the Holocaust. Genetics and eugenics: a personal odyssey / James D. Watson -- The stain of silence: Nazi ethics and bioethics / Arthur L. Caplan -- The legacy of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial to American bioethics and human rights / George J. Annas -- A more perfect human: the promise and the peril of modern science / Leon R. Kass -- What does "medicine after the Holocaust" have to do with aid in dying? / Kathryn L. Tucker -- Is physician-assisted suicide ever permissible? / Wesley J. Smith -- Cinematic perspectives on euthanasia and assisted suicide / Glen O. Gabbard -- Science, medicine, and religion in and after the Holocaust / John M. Haas -- Why science and religion need to cooperate to prevent a recurrence of the Holocaust / Irving Greenberg -- The status of the relationship between the citizen and the government / Ward Connerly -- From Nuremberg to the human genome: the right of human research participants / Henry T. Greely -- Medical professionalism: lessons from the Holocaust / Jordan J. Cohen -- Assessing risk in patient care / George Paul Noon -- Jewish medical ethics and risky treatments / Avraham Steinberg -- Afterword / Michael E. DeBakey -- Appendix A: additional information. ISBN 9780230621923 12.80. …

very good hardcover with printed covers, attractive copy. nicely INSCRIBED on front endpaper over 7-lines to another scholar of Nazi medical history, and SIGNED Shely Rubenfeld. RUBENFELD, SHELDON, ed. . Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia: before, during, and after the Holocaust. Edited by Sheldon Rubenfeld and Daniel P. Sulmasy, with Astrid Ley. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2020, 344pp., . Series: Revolutionary bioethics "This book provides a history of Nazi medical euthanasia programs, demonstrating that arguments in their favor were widely embraced by Western medicine before the Third Reich. Contributors find significant continuities between history and current physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia and urge caution about their legalization or implementation" - Introduction -- Part I. THE HISTORY AND CURRENT STATUS OF PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE AND EUTHANASIA IN EUROPE -- Chapter One. On a Slippery Slope: The Historical Debate on Euthanasia in Germany -- 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 -- Chapter Three. Euthanasia in Nazi Germany: Children's Euthanasia Program, Aktion T4, and Decentralized Killing - Chapter Four. Ethics and Ideology for Future Doctors: How Nazi Values Were Taught in the German Medical Curriculum 1939-1945 -- Chapter Five. A Protagonist's View of Euthanasia in the Netherlands Today -- Chapter Six. The Case Against Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia -- Chapter Seven. Palliative Medicine and the Debate on Physician-Assisted Death in Germany -- Part II. PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE AND EUTHANASIA AFTER THE HOLOCAUST -- Chapter Eight. Helping the Few: Historical Perspectives on Aid in Dying -- Chapter Nine. Palliative Care, Hospice, and Last-Resort Options - Chapter Ten. Race and Physician-Assisted Death: Do Black Lives Matter? -- Chapter Eleven. Understanding the Role of Suffering in Legalized Physician-Assisted Dying -- Chapter Twelve. Physician Countertransference and Patient Requests for a Hastened Death -- Chapter Thirteen. The Value of Life vs. the Principle of Autonomy -- Chapter Fourteen. The Distinction Between Voluntary and Involuntary Euthanasia and the Critical Role of Eugenics -- Chapter Fifteen. Euthanasia Old and New: Lives Not Worth Living and Unequal Respect for Autonomy - Chapter Sixteen. Can a Person Ever Be "Not Useful"? A Critical Analysis of the Anthropological Roots of Euthanasia under National Socialism and Today -- Chapter Seventeen. The Best Physicians Are Destined for Hell -- Chapter Eighteen. Pediatric Euthanasia: A Call for Civil Disobedience -- Chapter Nineteen. "The Syringe Belongs in the Hand of a Physician": Power, Authority, Control, Death, and the Patient-Physician Relationship -- Index -- About the Contributors. ISBN 9781793609496.…