Hospitals rely on ethics consultants to help navigate difficult decisions about life support, consent and a patient’s wishes when the path forward is unclear.
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Political activists on both the left and right have long appropriated the rhetoric and symbolism of Nazism and the Holocaust, a tactic usually based on ignorance and false equivalence.
Emotive claims, like COVID vaccination being unethical or coercive, are more likely to be shared on social media. But we can fight back.
The horror of the human experiments by Nazi doctors led to the Nuremberg Code but the international declaration it inspired was watered down for political purposes.
On Human Experiments – The impact of World War II on the development of human research ethics often overshadows the fascinating history and evolution of what came before.
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Research Assistant Professor, Division of Medical Ethics, New York University
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Lecturer in History of Medicine/Life Science, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, UNSW
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Associate Professor of History, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor, School of Population Health, UNSW
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Associate Professor, Public Health Ethics, School of Population Health, UNSW
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Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Social Justice, Michigan State University