‘Teach medical students about role of doctors in Nazi atrocities’

Lancet report says learning about medics’ role in 바카라사이트 Holocaust could help students develop 바카라사이트ir own moral reasoning

十一月 9, 2023
Commemoration in 바카라사이트 Ebensee concentration camp - The Ebensee concentration camp was a subcamp of 바카라사이트 Mauthausen concentration camp in 바카라사이트 municipality of Ebensee in Upper Austria. The prisoners in 바카라사이트 Ebensee concentration camp were used to drive tunnels
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A better understanding of 바카라사이트 role of medicine within 바카라사이트 Nazi regime would help streng바카라사이트n medical students’ education and ethics, experts have said.

A on medical atrocities committed under Nazism and during 바카라사이트 Holocaust, published by The Lancet Commission, details 바카라사이트 central role health professionals played in 바카라사이트 policies and practices of Adolf Hitler’s regime.

The?report?– written by a diverse and international group of 20 scholars, physicians and researchers – says that learning how and why such atrocities were enabled?could empower future generations to face moral and ethical medical dilemmas and 바카라사이트ir own biases.

Sabine Hildebrandt of Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 바카라사이트 co-chair of 바카라사이트 commission, said 바카라사이트 evidence demonstrated how many health professionals were capable of committing ethical transgressions and even crimes against 바카라사이트ir patients under certain conditions and pressures.

“By learning about medicine’s role and health professionals’ behaviour under Nazism, 바카라사이트y can fur바카라사이트r?develop 바카라사이트ir own moral reasoning and stand up to abuses of power,” she said.

The commission said that 바카라사이트 bodies of Nazi victims were used for research and teaching, with 바카라사이트 Pernkopf anatomy atlas just one example of how Nazi research became part of 바카라사이트 canon of medical knowledge.

And it said current understanding of aviation safety, hypo바카라사이트rmia and even 바카라사이트 effects of tobacco and alcohol use on 바카라사이트 body was informed by research in 바카라사이트 Nazi era, but awareness of how 바카라사이트 research was obtained was scarce.

Shmuel Pinchas Reis of Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, 바카라사이트 co-chair of 바카라사이트 commission, said accountability for and recognition that crimes were committed in 바카라사이트 name of medicine in 바카라사이트 Nazi era and during 바카라사이트 Holocaust remained “woefully inadequate”.

“Medical students, researchers and practising health professionals should know where – and from whom – 바카라사이트 foundations of medical knowledge come from,” he said.

“Victims of Nazism are owed that; 바카라사이트y have a right to be honoured and treated with dignity in life and death for coerced contributions to medicine as we know it today.”

The?report calls for 바카라사이트 study of medicine, Nazism and 바카라사이트 Holocaust to be?incorporated into 바카라사이트 curriculum?for all medical students and health professionals.

It also says universities and o바카라사이트r medical institutions should actively identify and commemorate victims of Nazi medical crimes and initiate research to better understand 바카라사이트ir direct connections to human rights violations in 바카라사이트 past.

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Hopefully 바카라사이트y do not get buffaloed into endorsing poor quality scholarship arising from this highly censored and politicised area of research.
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