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By Paul Hoedeman. 260 pp., illustrated. Sussex, England, Book Guild, 1991. £12.95. ISBN 0-86332-544-0.

Physicians everywhere work in the shadow of the Nazi epoch. Whether they recognize it or not, what happened in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945 has some influence on the treatment of patients and the standards of permissible research and experiments. For example, today the Nazi record provides extreme examples of what can happen and what did happen in state-sponsored euthanasia programs, planned sterilizations of patients with specific diseases, and shocking medical experiments carried out on involuntary subjects. Moreover, the Nazi experience has relevance for many current medical debates, such as those on abortion, genetic screening, racial differences in susceptibility . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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