Abstract
Medicine during the Nazi period and the Shoah (Holocaust) is not a matter of the distant past. Historical evidence documents that the reasoning, values, and activities of health-care professionals and biomedical researchers in this context represented extreme manifestations of potential problems inherent in medicine more generally. 1 Roelcke V Medicine during the Nazi period: historical facts and some implications for teaching medical ethics and professionalism. in: Rubenfeld S Medicine after the Holocaust. From the master race to the human genome and beyond. Palgrave MacMillan, New York2010: 17-29 Crossref Google Scholar Confronting what happened to medicine in this period is crucial to recognise and modify similar tendencies today and guide and inform the ethical practice of medicine. This history also illustrates the conditions for and scope of the resilience and resistance of medical professionals in challenging situations.
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