Mr. Ira Sterne--Social Studies-----Nazi Medical Experiments

INFORMATION CENTER RESARCH QUESTIONS

Many Nazi doctors and scientists justified their “experiments” as advancing their nation and the cause of science.

QUESTION 1: In light of historical evidence, and codes of accepted practices how do these justifications and experiments conflict with our concept of social and moral righteousness? Check the “fallout” from the Milgram experiments on obedience.

QUESTION 2:  Is it really ethical to use the data-that is- the results of these experiments? Can their use be justified? If what happened is now history, is it okay to look at this data? (“what’s done is done”)

You should use the list of modern experimental guidelines that is on the reverse of the Milgram handout.

Some keywords with which to search are:

Hippocratic Oath
Declaration of Helsinki
Nuremberg Code

Library Resources

Web Collection Plus Online Catalog
Virtual Reference Collection
ABC-CLIO American History; World History/Modern Era
Issues and Controversey in American History
Proquest Historical NY Times (from 1851)
Gale Student Resources in Context
Academic Integrity
NoodleTools Citation System
Citation Machine

 

websites

1) Nazi Medical Experiments

     http://www.ushmm.org/

2) Medical Experiments of the Holocaust and Nazi Medicine

    www.remember.org/educate/medexp.html

3) The Ethics Of Using Medical Data From Nazi Experiments

    www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/naziexp.html

4) A Synopsis of the Medical Experiments of Nazi Doctors

    http://www.isurvived.org/

5) The Nazi Doctors

    www.auschwitz.dk/doctors.htm

6) Human medical experimentation in the United States

    http://www.naturalnews.com/

7) Personal Statements from Victims

    http://www.claimscon.org/

8) NCUR Abstract: NAZI MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS

    http://www.dominican.edu/