Living Wills and More: Everything You Need to Ensure That All Your Medical Wishes Are Followed.

A panel of experts and concentration camp survivors examines difficult problems raised by Nazi medicine. The relevance of these issues to contemporary biomedical disputes-particularly in the areas of medical genetics, human experimentation, and euthanasia--are explored in detail and with sensitivity.

The book opens with the personal testimonies of several survivors of Nazi medical research, showing vividly the price that was paid. The "experiments" were performed on concentration camp victims, without their consent or prior knowledge--all in the name of "science."

The questions raised include: How can medical scientists so lose perspective as to experiment on fellow humans? Are we morally free to...