By Michael Burleigh. 370 pp. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1994. $59.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). ISBN 0-52141613-2 (cloth); 0-521-47769-7 (paper).
Euthanasia in early-20th-century Germany has often been linkedto other bioethical issues, such as abortion, sterilization,concentration-camp experiments, and to the events of the Holocaust.These linkages often influence the assessment of the Germanexperience and its relevance to medical practice in other countries.Some have seen the concentration of evils in Germany as unthinkableelsewhere, whereas others have used some combination of thesehistorical events in advancing slippery-slope arguments. Thefirst group regularly ignores the advocacy of euthanasia inpre-Nazi Germany; the second group often leaves important issuesrelated to euthanasia unexplored. In Death and Deliverance,Burleigh rarely departs . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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