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The Nazi Analogy in Bioethics
Author(s) -
Hentoff Nat,
Callahan Daniel,
Crum Gary E.,
Cohen Cynthia B.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3563233
Subject(s) - analogy , bioethics , terrain , nazism , mountaineering , sociology , political science , philosophy , law , history , epistemology , geography , archaeology , cartography , politics
In 1976, The Hastings Center convened a conference to examine the validity of proposed parallels between Nazi and contemporary biomedical practices in moral argument. Charges that current medical and social practices and policies are analogous to or are the moral equivalent of Nazi programs are again in the air, and in this new feature of the Report, four commentators display and critique the use of this analogy.