Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Before, During, and After the Holocaust - Paperback

by Sheldon Rubenfeld (Editor), Daniel P. Sulmasy (Editor), Astrid Ley (With)

This book provides a history of Nazi medical euthanasia programs, demonstrating that arguments in their favor were widely embraced by Western medicine before the Third Reich. Contributors find significant continuities between history and current physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia and urge caution about their legalization or implementation.

Author Biography

Sheldon Rubenfeld is clinical professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and executive director of the Center of Medicine after the Holocaust (CMATH). Daniel P. Sulmasy is André Hellegers professor of biomedical ethics in the departments of medicine and philosophy and acting director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University.