PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Appendicitis, Twin, Twin Study
14 Dec 2017
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Science and the swastika: the deadly experiment in class documentary. Nazi doctors placed ambulances outside of where they did their work because it gave the people coming in a sense of safety when seeing the vehicle with a red cross. Nazi"s separated the healthy and the sick in order to make themselves think they were doing good, helpful, medical experiments. Would kill people (with injections) and see how each organ reacted. Mindset was well they"ll be dead tomorrow so why not experiment on them today : completely immoral and unethical. First targets were aaryn germans, tried to create a master race by eliminating people with any sort of defect" that didn"t fit the master race. Made propaganda to show that their treatments made the disabled functional parts of society but those who were too disabled were euthanized in order to make room in hospitals for. German soldiers, even though they had the same life expectancy as the average person.
