Human Subjects Research after the Holocaust

Rubenfeld, Sheldon; Benedict, Susan

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-05702-6

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Medicine, the Holocaust, and Human Dignity: Lessons from Human Rights

Wasserman

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2022

The International Library of Bioethics

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The development of bioethics in the late Twentieth Century parallels the development of human rights discourses. Both intellectual movements have ideological roots in a reckoning with the tragedy of the Holocaust and both invoke conceptions of human dignity that have sometimes been accused of being vague or empty and therefore useless. However, despite its ambiguity, human dignity plays an important role in both discourses. In particular, we argue that bioethics scholars can learn from how advocates of human rights have balanced their idealized and abstract conceptions of dignity (and other values) with a focus on how real-world personal and institutional moral failures can inform efforts to promote human rights. We argue that a reengagement with the horrors of the Holocaust can supplement and motivate a critical, real-world bioethics, one that is responsive to the personal and institutional failures of our time and which provides practical guidance under non-ideal conditions.

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