After Auschwitz : reflections on the future of medicine / Peter Selg ; tranlated by Jeff Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Selg, Peter, 1963- author.

Standardized Title:

Nach Auschwitz. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Auschwitz (Concentration camp).

Medical ethics--History--20th century.

Medical ethics.

Human experimentation in medicine--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human experimentation in medicine.

Medicine--History.

Medicine.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 261 pages : portraits ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Hudson, NY : SteinerBooks, 2022.

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

Summary:

Since 2009, Peter Selg, along with Polish historians, has led seminars on medical ethics at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial for students at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany. This book was created following a public event in 2019 that investigated the "lessons of Auschwitz" for the practice of medicine in society today and in the future. As well as commemorating the individual victims, the Auschwitz event focused on the role of German physicians in the Nazi regime. In this book, Dr. Selg's discussions go far beyond the historical events of the 1930s and '40s. Countering the legacy of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the inhumane medical practices of that time, he presents us with ways to advance forms of medicine today that encourage the most compassionate treatment of one another as human beings.

Notes:

Originally published as: Nach Auschwitz : auseinandersetzungen um die Zukunft der Medizin.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1621482669

9781621482666

OCLC:

1309868636