Medicine after the Holocaust : from the master race to the human genome and beyond / edited by Sheldon Rubenfeld, in conjunction with the Holocaust Museum Houston.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword: This past must not be prologue / Francis S. Collins -- Introduction / Sheldon Rubenfeld -- pt. 1. Eugenics, euthanasia, extermination. When evil was good and good evil: remembrances of Nuremberg / Edmund D. Pellegrino -- Medicine during the Nazi period: historical facts and some implications for teaching medical ethics and professionalism / Volker Roelcke -- Academic medicine during the Nazi period: the implications for creating awareness of professional responsibility today / William Seidelman -- Misconceptions of "race" as a biological category: then and now / Theresa M. Duello -- Mad, bad, or evil: how physician healers turn to torture and murder / Michael A. Grodin -- Genetic diversity has prevailed, not the master race / Ferid Murad -- pt. 2. Medicine after the Holocaust. Genetics and eugenics: a personal odyssey / James D. Watson -- The stain of silence: Nazi ethics and bioethics / Arthur L. Caplan -- The legacy of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial to American bioethics and human rights / George J. Annas -- A more perfect human: the promise and the peril of modern science / Leon R. Kass -- What does "medicine after the Holocaust" have to do with aid in dying? / Kathryn L. Tucker -- Is physician-assisted suicide ever permissible? / Wesley J. Smith -- Cinematic perspectives on euthanasia and assisted suicide / Glen O. Gabbard -- Science, medicine, and religion in and after the Holocaust / John M. Haas -- Why science and religion need to cooperate to prevent a recurrence of the Holocaust / Irving Greenberg -- The status of the relationship between the citizen and the government / Ward Connerly -- From Nuremberg to the human genome: the right of human research participants / Henry T. Greely -- Medical professionalism: lessons from the Holocaust / Jordan J. Cohen -- Assessing risk in patient care / George Paul Noon -- Jewish medical ethics and risky treatments / Avraham Steinberg -- Afterword / Michael E. DeBakey -- Appendix A: additional information.