From scientific exploitation to individual memorialization: Evolving attitudes towards research on Nazi victims’ bodies

During the Third Reich, state-sponsored violence was linked to scientific research on many levels. Prisoners were used as involuntary subjects for medical experiments, and body parts from victims were used in anatomy and neuropathology on a massive scale. In many cases, such specimens remained in sc...

Full description

Saved in:  
Bibliographic Details
Authors: Czech, Herwig 1974- (Author) ; Weindling, Paul 1953- (Author) ; Druml, Christiane 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Journals Online & Print:
Drawer...
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2021
In: Bioethics
Year: 2021, Volume: 35, Issue: 6, Pages: 508-517
RelBib Classification:NCH Medical ethics
NCJ Ethics of science
TK Recent history
Further subjects:B National Socialism
B Ethics
B body donors
B Austria
B history of bioethics
B Posthumous interests
B human material
B Anatomy
B neuropathology
B Nazi medicine
B Germany
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
Volltext (kostenfrei)

MARC

LEADER 00000caa a22000002 4500
001 1764871790
003 DE-627
005 20211006155519.0
007 cr uuu---uuuuu
008 210729s2021 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c
024 7 |a 10.1111/bioe.12860  |2 doi 
035 |a (DE-627)1764871790 
035 |a (DE-599)KXP1764871790 
040 |a DE-627  |b ger  |c DE-627  |e rda 
041 |a eng 
084 |a 1  |2 ssgn 
100 1 |e VerfasserIn  |0 (DE-588)129380970  |0 (DE-627)394199456  |0 (DE-576)297631772  |4 aut  |a Czech, Herwig  |d 1974- 
109 |a Czech, Herwig 1974-  |a Czech, H. 1974- 
245 1 0 |a From scientific exploitation to individual memorialization: Evolving attitudes towards research on Nazi victims’ bodies 
264 1 |c 2021 
336 |a Text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a Computermedien  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a Online-Ressource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
520 |a During the Third Reich, state-sponsored violence was linked to scientific research on many levels. Prisoners were used as involuntary subjects for medical experiments, and body parts from victims were used in anatomy and neuropathology on a massive scale. In many cases, such specimens remained in scientific collections and were used until long after the war. International bioethics, for a long time, had little to say on the issue. Since the late 1980s, with a renewed interest in the Holocaust and other Nazi crimes, a consensus has increasingly taken hold that research on human tissues and body parts from the Nazi era is inadmissible, and that such specimens should be removed from scientific collections and buried. The question of what to do with scientific data obtained from these sources has not received adequate attention, however, and remains unsolved. This paper traces the history of debates about the ethical implications of using human tissue or body parts from the Nazi period for scientific purposes, primarily in the fields of anatomy and neuropathology. It also examines how this issue, from after the war until today, influenced the establishment of legal and bioethical norms on the use of human remains from morally tainted sources, with a particular emphasis on Germany and Austria. It is argued that the use of such specimens and of data derived from them is unethical not only because of potential harms to posthumous rights of the victims, but also because such use constitutes a moral harm to society at large. 
601 |a Individuation 
650 4 |a Posthumous interests 
650 4 |a neuropathology 
650 4 |a Nazi medicine 
650 4 |a National Socialism 
650 4 |a human material 
650 4 |a history of bioethics 
650 4 |a Germany 
650 4 |a Ethics 
650 4 |a body donors 
650 4 |a Austria 
650 4 |a Anatomy 
652 |a NCH:NCJ:TK 
700 1 |e VerfasserIn  |0 (DE-588)1055805850  |0 (DE-627)793847109  |0 (DE-576)41118363X  |4 aut  |a Weindling, Paul  |d 1953- 
700 1 |e VerfasserIn  |0 (DE-588)143202227  |0 (DE-627)704419378  |0 (DE-576)335610307  |4 aut  |a Druml, Christiane  |d 1955- 
773 0 8 |i Enthalten in  |t Bioethics  |d Oxford [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell, 1987  |g 35(2021), 6, Seite 508-517  |h Online-Ressource  |w (DE-627)271596708  |w (DE-600)1480658-7  |w (DE-576)078707986  |x 1467-8519  |7 nnns 
773 1 8 |g volume:35  |g year:2021  |g number:6  |g pages:508-517 
856 |u https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8360009  |x unpaywall  |z Vermutlich kostenfreier Zugang  |h repository [oa repository (via pmcid lookup)] 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12860  |x Resolving-System  |z kostenfrei  |3 Volltext 
856 4 0 |u https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bioe.12860  |x Verlag  |z kostenfrei  |3 Volltext 
935 |a mteo 
951 |a AR 
ELC |a 1 
ITA |a 1  |t 1 
LOK |0 000 xxxxxcx a22 zn 4500 
LOK |0 001 3958392792 
LOK |0 003 DE-627 
LOK |0 004 1764871790 
LOK |0 005 20211006155519 
LOK |0 008 210729||||||||||||||||ger||||||| 
LOK |0 035   |a (DE-Tue135)IxTheo#2021-07-28#C6B816C6E17E786C99596633B406CF5C944784AF 
LOK |0 040   |a DE-Tue135  |c DE-627  |d DE-Tue135 
LOK |0 092   |o n 
LOK |0 852   |a DE-Tue135 
LOK |0 852 1  |9 00 
LOK |0 935   |a ixzs  |a zota 
LOK |0 936ln  |0 1550736558  |a NCH 
LOK |0 936ln  |0 1550736582  |a NCJ 
LOK |0 936ln  |0 1442053887  |a TK 
OAS |a 1 
ORI |a SA-MARC-ixtheoa001.raw 
REL |a 1 
SUB |a REL