Bioethical and ethical issues surrounding the trials and Code of Nuremberg: Nuremberg revisited.

Rozenberg, Jacques J., 1951-, ed.

Published by Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, N.Y., 2003

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attractive gray hardcover with printed covers, near fine and appears little used if at all. ROZENBERG, JACQUES J., ed. . Bioethical and ethical issues surrounding the trials and Code of Nuremberg: Nuremberg revisited. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003, xx, 313pp., . Series: Symposium series (Edwin Mellen Press) v. 74 Rozenberg presents an interdisciplinary collection of 13 essays looking at philosophical, ethical, and legal aspects of the Nuremberg Trials and the Code of Nuremburg. The essays explore five major areas: the juridical originality of the trials; the epistemological and psychoanalytical backgrounds of racism and anti-Semitism; biomedical and bioethical issues of the Code; examinations of the concept of "crime against humanity;" and Jewish perspectives on race, purity and impurity, universal ethics. - CONTENTS: Preface : Breaking the dark Mirror / Richard A. Cohen -- Introduction : From anti-semitism and racism to ethics : an epistemological reflection on the Nuremberg trials and code / Jacques J. Rozenberg -- Do the biologists need the expression "human race" : UNESCO 1950-51 / Jean Gayon -- The emergence of German geneticists from the swastika / Raphael Falk -- Medical ethics is question : an historical perspective on eugenism and normality / Samuel S. Kottek -- Biologism in the service of apocalyptic thinking : a psycho-analytic perspective on purity, impurity, and race / Ludwig Haesler -- Medicine, the Holocaust, and the doctors' trial / Joe Levi -- The ethics of using medical data from Nazi experiments / Baruch C. Cohen -- The Shoah as a crime against humanity : reflections on civilization and its annihilation / Ephraim Meir -- Guit, responsibility, and humanity / Aharon Shear-Yashuv -- Amalek in the Holocaust-era Orthodox Jewish thought / Gershon Greenberg -- Created in the image of God : Jews and the nations / Michael Z. Nehorai -- The Noahide universal law / Nahum Rakover -- Rights and duties / Haim H. Cohn -- The one and the other : reflections on the ontological roots of politics / Shalon Rosenberg. 9780773466081 ISBN 0773466088 23.30.

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• Title: Bioethical and ethical issues surrounding the trials and Code of Nuremberg: Nuremberg revisited.
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, N.Y.
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Weight: 23.3 ounces
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  • Germany-1933-1945-War-Crimes