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Medical Experiments in the Holocaust
Doctors have always been thought of as the saviors of mankind, the healers and caretakers of our utter existence. The trust of a physician is sacred. This is why the practice of medicine by the doctors of the Third Reich is outrageous and shocking. The Nazi doctors violated the trust placed in them by h ....
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.... mostly by people with little or no medical training, under the supervision of German doctors (Berenbaum 390).
As I mentioned before, there were two main purposes the Nazis preformed medical experiments. (1) Experiments whose objectives were compatible with professional medical ethics and propose of medical practice, but whose mode of implementation violated moral law. For example, inmates were injected with diseases, such as tuberculosis, to test the effects of drug treatments. In other experiments, inmates were given typhus injections to preserve the bacteria for use in later e ....
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