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1. Nazi Persecution of the Disabled: Murder of the "Unfit"

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labeling them “life unworthy of life” or “useless eaters” and highlighting their burden upon society. The ... The Nazi persecution of persons with disabilities in Germany was one component of radical public

2. A More Perfect Human: The Promise and Peril of Modern Science

booklet entitled “On Permitting (or Authorizing) the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life (Lebensunwerten ... defects, they believe, renders a prospective child unworthy of life. Persons who happen still to be born ... Americanism for the German “life unworthy of life.” I do not minimize the ethical anguish that often confronts ... sanctity of human life, can reasonably believe that “it cannot happen here”; and I agree with this

3. The Doctors Trial: The Medical Case of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings

they deemed "unworthy of life." The victims included the institutionalized mentally ill and physically ... against humanity. This was Case #1 of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings

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4. The Doctors Trial: The Medical Case of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings

physicians planned and enacted the Euthanasia Program, the systematic killing of those they deemed "unworthy ... of life." The victims included people with severe psychiatric, neurological, or physical disabilities ... thousands of concentration camp prisoners without their consent. Most died or were permanently injured as a

5. Euthanasia Program and Aktion T4

aimed to eliminate what eugenicists and their supporters considered "life unworthy of life": those ... which labeled these persons "life unworthy of life" also made institutionalized patients the targets of ... murder of institutionalized patients with disabilities in Germany. It predated the genocide of European ... Jewry (the Holocaust) by approximately two years. The program was one of

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6. Historical Quotes

Authorization of the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life, Leipzig, 1920 "The national state . . . must set ... humanity while the best care is lavished on life of negative worth." — Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche ... race in the center of all life. It must take care to keep it pure. It must declare the child to be the ... sureness of the advocates of this new dream. I shudder at their ruthlessness in meddling with life. I

7. Science as Salvation: Weimar Eugenics, 1919–1933

Alfred Hoche, Authorization of the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life, Leipzig, 1920 ... I and during the political and economic crises of the Weimar Republic ... health education, and government-funded research. Proponents of eugenics argued that by keeping the ... natural selection. (Natural selection was the concept that Charles Darwin applied to the “survival of the

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8. Dr. Michael A. Grodin

the mentally ill and the mentally retarded…"life, unworthy of life" quote, unquote. And then, from the ... dehumanized and tortured. He believes we need to beware of the subtle ways that medical ethics can be ... subverted in the name of research and public health. MICHAEL GRODIN: All medical ethics is really ... that means. ALEISA FISHMAN Dr. Michael Grodin is Professor of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human

9. Gassing Operations

deemed "unworthy of life" because of mental illness or physical disability. Six gassing ... The Nazis began experimenting with poison gas for the purpose of mass murder in late 1939 with ... the killing of patients with mental and physical disabilities in the Euthanasia Program ... A Nazi euphemism, "euthanasia" referred to the systematic killing of those Germans whom the Nazis

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10. People with Disabilities

them “life unworthy of life” or “useless eaters” and highlighting their burden upon society. Just a ... -war life up until the birth of his first child in 1963. Includes numerous black and white photographs ... government instituted the “Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases.” This law, one of the ... first steps taken by the Nazis toward their goal of creating an Aryan “master race,” called for the

11. Progress and Evil

unworthy life and the questions raised about the nature of humanness and what we are and I was struck ... what in fact is the place of science and our notions of a good life and a good society, and our notions ... of a good life and a good society. And I think there are a number of things that can be said as one ... considers these questions that the question of what the place—what is the place of science in life is not a

12. How Did Medicine Go So Wrong?

diseases. Possession of any one of these defects they believe renders a prospective child unworthy of life ... That’s Leon playing off the “life not worthy of living” analogy that popped up in a lot of the pre-Nazi ... Arthur Caplan, Director, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Caplan explores how ... moral inquiry into this history can inform the field of bioethics today as it confronts controversial