Ethics Seminars: Physician Complicity in the Holocaust: Historical Review and Reflections on Emergency Medicine in the 21st Century, Part I

Author: Geiderman, Joel Martin

Source: Academic Emergency Medicine, Volume 9, Number 3, March 2002 , pp. 223-231(9)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

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Abstract:

Individual physicians as well as the medical establishment were complicit in a wide range of activities carried out by the Nazis during the period that encompassed the Holocaust. This article examines these activities and lists eight moral failures attributable to physicians of this era. The accompanying article reviews the ethical pitfalls encountered by German physicians during the Nazi era and examines them in relationship to current issues. It also explores the role of professionalism then and now. In particular, ethical issues presently confronting emergency physicians are examined through this prism.

Keywords: Holocaust; history; physician complicity; ethics; professionalism

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1197/aemj.9.3.223

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