HSS 2121 Chapter Notes - Chapter Exam : Central Intelligence Agency, Sperm Donation, Scott Shane

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 2121
• Professor: Louise Edmonds

Document Summary

Nazi science and nazi medical ethics: some myths and misconceptions. There is a convenience of sorts in the myth: it makes it easy to argue that "nazi science" was not really science at all, and therefore there is no ethical dilemma. One needn"t talk about the ethics of nazi medicine, since there was no legitimate medicine to speak of. Nazi science in one swift blow is reduced to an oxymoron, a medical non-problem. Groups participated in the process of myth-making: post-war scientists: allowed scientists to argue that the very act of scientific research under nazi rule was a form of resistance. The frightening truth is that the nazis supported many kinds of science, left politics (as we often think about it) out of most, and transformed but did not abandon ethics. There is an ethics of nazi medical practice, sometimes explicit, sometimes not; sometimes cruel, sometimes not.