Shevell M I
Division of Pediatric Neurology, Montreal Children's Hospital, Quebec, Canada.
Can J Neurol Sci. 1999 May;26(2):132-8.
It is commonly thought that the horrific medical abuses occurring during the era of the Third Reich were limited to fringe physicians acting in extreme locales such as the concentration camps. However, it is becoming increasingly apparent that there was a widespread perversion of medical practice and science that extended to mainstream academic physicians. Scientific thought, specifically the theories of racial hygiene, and the political conditions of a totalitarian dictatorship, acted symbiotically to devalue the intrinsic worth to society of those individuals with mental and physical disabilities. This devaluation served to foster the medical abuses which occurred. Neurosciences in the Third Reich serves as a backdrop to highlight what was the slippery slope of medical practice during that era. Points on this slippery slope included the "dejudification" of medicine, unethical experimentation in university clinics, systematic attempts to sterilize and euthanasize targeted populations, the academic use of specimens obtained through such programs and the experimental atrocities within the camps.
人们普遍认为，第三帝国时期发生的可怕医学暴行仅限于在集中营等极端地区行事的边缘医生。然而，越来越明显的是，医学实践和科学存在广泛的扭曲，这种扭曲延伸到了主流学术医生身上。科学思想，特别是种族卫生理论，以及极权独裁的政治状况，相互作用，贬低了身心残疾者对社会的内在价值。这种贬低助长了当时发生的医学滥用行为。第三帝国时期的神经科学作为一个背景，凸显了那个时代医学实践的滑坡。这个滑坡上的要点包括医学的“去神圣化”、大学诊所的不道德实验、对目标人群进行绝育和安乐死的系统性尝试、通过此类项目获取标本的学术用途以及集中营内的实验暴行。
