tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Psychiatry during the Nazi era: ethical lessons for the modern professional"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Psychiatry during the Nazi era: ethical lessons for the modern professional. | Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Open Access Review Psychiatry during the Nazi era ethical lessons for the modern professional Rael D Strous Address Department of Psychiatry Beer Yaakov Mental Health Center Sackler Faculty of Medicine Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv Israel Email Rael D Strous - raels@ Corresponding author Published 27 February 2007 Received 2 December 2006 Annals of General Psychiatry 2007 6 8 doi 1744-859X-6-8 Accepted 27 February 2007 This article is available from http content 6 1 8 2007 Strous licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract For the first time in history psychiatrists during the Nazi era sought to systematically exterminate their patients. However little has been published from this dark period analyzing what may be learned for clinical and research psychiatry. At each stage in the murderous process lay a series of unethical and heinous practices with many psychiatrists demonstrating a profound commitment to the atrocities playing central pivotal roles critical to the success of Nazi policy. Several misconceptions led to this misconduct including allowing philosophical constructs to define clinical practice focusing exclusively on preventative medicine allowing political pressures to influence practice blurring the roles of clinicians and researchers and falsely believing that good science and good ethics always co-exist. Psychiatry during this period provides a most horrifying example of how science may be perverted by external forces. It thus becomes crucial to include the Nazi era psychiatry experience in ethics training as an example of proper practice gone awry. Background During the Nazi era for the first time