Email this article The moral purity of medicine: Is it time to get rid of eponyms related to Nazism?
- Authors: Damulin I.V.1
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Affiliations:
- The I.M. Sechenov first Moscow state medical university of Minzdrav of Russia
- Issue: Vol 22, No 3 (2016)
- Pages: 142-145
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0869-2106/article/view/38333
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18821/0869-2106-2016-22-3-142-145
- ID: 38333
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Abstract
The article considers eponymic names of predominantly diseases of central nervous system (Hallervorden-Spatz disease, etc.) which origin is related to physicians actively cooperated with Nazis during the Second world War. The participation of these physicians in euthanasia program and also in inhuman experiments on people implemented by Nazis in concentration camps is emphasized. The conclusion is made that the reason of all this is lacking of moral standards. It is proposed to exclude a number of eponymic names related to physicians actively cooperated with Nazis.
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Igor’ V. Damulin
The I.M. Sechenov first Moscow state medical university of Minzdrav of Russia
Email: damulin@mmascience.ru
doctor of medical sciences, professor of chair of diseases of nervous system and neurosurgery of medical faculty 310115, Moscow, Russia
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