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The Nazis performed monstrous biomedical experiments on concentration camp prisoners....This (book)...opens with the testimonies of camp survivors....(Shows) how the science of racial hygiene...took hold in Germany long before the Nazis came to power....(Compares) Nazi euthanasia to the current practice of withdrawing life-support systems from patients whose continued treatment is not "costworthy"....(Thoughtfully looks) at ethical dilemmas surrounding the Human Genome Project...which, critics charge, could open the door to Nazi-like abuses.Caplan, Arthur L. is the author of 'When Medicine Went Mad Bioethics and the Holocaust', published 1992 under ISBN 9780896032354 and ISBN 0896032353.
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