Nazi science and Nazi medical ethics: Some myths and misconceptions

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 335-346

  Proctor, Rorert N ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ARTICLE; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPLICITY; CRIME; GERMANY; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL GENETICS; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT; RESEARCH;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

COMPLICITY; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUGENICS; GERMANY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOLOCAUST; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; NATIONAL SOCIALISM; POLITICAL SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT; RESEARCH;

EID: 0034151558     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pbm.2000.0024     Document Type: Article

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