Indignity of Nazi data: reflections on the utilization of illicit research.

IF 2.3 2区 哲学 Q1 ETHICS
Medicine Health Care and Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-06 DOI:10.1007/s11019-024-10212-z
Iman Farahani, Joel Janhonen
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Abstract

Human rights may feel self-apparent to us, but less than 80 years ago, one of the most advanced countries at the time acted based on an utterly contrary ideology. The view of social Darwinism that abandoned the idea of the intrinsic value of human lives instead argued that oppression of the inferior is not only inevitable but desirable. One of the many catastrophic outcomes is the medical data obtained from inhuman experiments at concentration camps. Ethical uncertainty over whether the resulting insights should be a part of the medical literature provides a chance to consider the seemingly irreplaceable social construct of human dignity. Would any medical benefit justify the utilization of this illicit data? Would utilization even qualify as an insult to the dignity of the exploited subjects, or is this a question about intersubjective meaning? This work discusses the wisdom in blind adherence to human dignity, the possibility of retrospective insults, moral complicity, contrary viewpoints, and possible resolutions.

纳粹数据的耻辱:关于利用非法研究的思考。
人权在我们看来也许是不言自明的,但在不到 80 年前,当时最先进的国家之一却以完全相反的意识形态行事。社会达尔文主义抛弃了人类生命固有价值的观点,转而认为压迫劣等人不仅不可避免,而且是可取的。从集中营非人道实验中获得的医学数据就是众多灾难性后果之一。对于由此产生的见解是否应成为医学文献的一部分,在伦理上存在着不确定性,这为我们提供了一个思考人类尊严这一看似不可替代的社会建构的机会。利用这些非法数据是否会带来任何医学利益?利用这些数据是否会侮辱被利用者的尊严,或者这是否是一个关于主体间意义的问题?本著作讨论了盲目坚持人类尊严的智慧、追溯侮辱的可能性、道德共谋、相反观点以及可能的解决方案。
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期刊介绍: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy: A European Journal is the official journal of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care. It provides a forum for international exchange of research data, theories, reports and opinions in bioethics and philosophy of medicine. The journal promotes interdisciplinary studies, and stimulates philosophical analysis centered on a common object of reflection: health care, the human effort to deal with disease, illness, death as well as health, well-being and life. Particular attention is paid to developing contributions from all European countries, and to making accessible scientific work and reports on the practice of health care ethics, from all nations, cultures and language areas in Europe.
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