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[IS IT APPROPRIATE TO CHANGE THE NAMES OF SURGICAL PROCEDURES AND EXAMINATIONS IN THE FIELD OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY WHICH GIVE EPONYMS DISTINCTION TO NAZI DOCTORS?].
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August 2019
Jakobovits Center for Medical Ethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
The majority of the German medical institutions and nearly half of the clinicians during the Nazi regime provided unwavering support to the distorted Nazi views on health and disability. Leading physicians were an integral part of the atrocities carried out during that era, with some of them having a vital role in executing the ideology of the "final solution". The names of Carl Clauberg and Walter Stoeckel, two notable doctors in the fields of obstetrics and gynecology, were also linked with the third Reich.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNames of infamy: tainted eponyms.
J Clin Neurosci
April 2015
Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia.
The use of eponyms is controversial. A distinction must be made between those doctors and scientists after whom disorders and syndromes are named in honour of their discoveries, and those whose discoveries were made as a result of maltreatment of defenceless prisoners, utilizing specimens from victims of Nazi extermination policies, and euthanasia victims of racial policies. The second group of scientists should have their names expunged from the historical record, and their deeds brought to the attention of their colleagues.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe tainted legacy of Hans Reiter.
Semin Arthritis Rheum
February 2003
Department of Medicine, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ 07039, USA.
There is more than ample evidence that Hans Reiter, whose name has been eponymously linked to a rheumatologic syndrome, was a Nazi war criminal. He was responsible for heinous atrocities that violated the precepts of humanity, ethics, and professionalism. The authors suggest that Reiter's legacy is sufficiently tainted that the professional and ethical position of the medical community should be to no longer afford him this recognition.
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