MEDRADSC 3Y03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nuremberg Code, Racial Hygiene, Nazi Human Experimentation

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Medical Radiation Sciences
• Course: MEDRADSC 3Y03
• Professor: Leslie Murray

Document Summary

Objectives: medical ethos, social darwinism, eugenics, racial hygiene, u. s. britain, germany and canada involuntary sterilization, nazi medicine and human experimentation, nuremberg trial, code, laws and legacy. Hippocratic oath: primum non nocere = first, do no harm, fo(cid:272)us o(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s sufferi(cid:374)g, responsibilities of physician not stratified on the basis of a hierarchy of worth or on social priorities of the state. Long held view that the ethos was immutable: can"t be changed or molded, not malleable, but are susceptible to change, values were stable despite individual and cultural variation. & therefore not in jesus christ as the son of god. Racial hygiene: 1894, alfred ploetz german, coined racial hygiene. Wendell holmes (cid:862)three ge(cid:374)eratio(cid:374)s of i(cid:373)(cid:271)e(cid:272)iles are e(cid:374)ough(cid:863: racial segregation, ca(cid:374)ada"s dirt(cid:455) lau(cid:374)dr(cid:455) Huge immigration of farm women, the women that were there before them wanted a good generation after them mostly protestant religion (not as frown upon as in catholic: alberta involuntary sterilizations.