{"id":3637,"date":"2024-04-06T13:44:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T13:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=3637"},"modified":"2024-04-06T14:27:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T14:27:46","slug":"prestigious-medical-journal-ignored-nazi-atrocities-historians-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=3637","title":{"rendered":"Prestigious Medical Journal Ignored Nazi Atrocities, Historians Find"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The New England Journal of Medicine published an article condemning its own record during World War II.<\/p>\n

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A new article<\/a> in the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the oldest and most esteemed publications for medical research, criticizes the journal for paying only \u201csuperficial and idiosyncratic attention\u201d to the atrocities perpetrated in the name of medical science by the Nazis.<\/p>\n

The journal was \u201can outlier in its sporadic coverage of the rise of Nazi Germany,\u201d wrote the article\u2019s authors, Allan Brandt and Joelle Abi-Rached, both medical historians at Harvard. Often, the journal simply ignored the Nazis\u2019 medical depredations, such as the horrific experiments conducted on twins at Auschwitz, which were based largely on Adolf Hitler\u2019s spurious \u201cracial science<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In contrast, two other leading science journals \u2014 Science and the Journal of the American Medical Association \u2014 covered the Nazis\u2019 discriminatory policies throughout Hitler\u2019s tenure, the historians noted. The New England journal did not publish an article \u201cexplicitly damning\u201d the Nazis\u2019 medical atrocities until 1949<\/a>, four years after World War II ended.<\/p>\n

The new article, published in this week\u2019s issue of the journal, is part of a series<\/a> started last year to address racism and other forms of prejudice in the medical establishment. Another recent article<\/a> described the journal\u2019s enthusiastic coverage of eugenics throughout the 1930s and \u201940s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cLearning from our past mistakes can help us going forward,\u201d said the journal\u2019s editor, Dr. Eric Rubin, an infectious disease expert at Harvard. \u201cWhat can we do to ensure that we don\u2019t fall into the same sorts of objectionable ideas in the future?\u201d<\/p>\n

In the publication\u2019s archives, Dr. Abi-Rached discovered a paper endorsing Nazi medical practices: \u201cRecent changes in German health insurance under the Hitler government,\u201d a 1935 treatise written by Michael Davis<\/a>, an influential figure in health care, and Gertrud Kroeger, a nurse from Germany. The article praised the Nazis\u2019 emphasis on public health<\/a>, which was infused with dubious ideas about Germans\u2019 innate superiority.<\/p>\n

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The New England Journal of Medicine published an article condemning its own record during World War II.A new article in the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the oldest and most esteemed publications for medical research, criticizes the journal for paying only \u201csuperficial and idiosyncratic attention\u201d to the atrocities perpetrated in the name of medical science by the Nazis.The journal was \u201can outlier in its sporadic coverage of the rise of Nazi Germany,\u201d wrote the article\u2019s authors, Allan Brandt and Joelle Abi-Rached, both medical historians at Harvard. Often, the journal simply ignored the Nazis\u2019 medical depredations, such as the horrific experiments conducted on twins at Auschwitz, which were based largely on Adolf Hitler\u2019s spurious \u201cracial science.\u201dIn contrast, two other leading science journals \u2014 Science and the Journal of the American Medical Association \u2014 covered the Nazis\u2019 discriminatory policies throughout Hitler\u2019s tenure, the historians noted. The New England journal did not publish an article \u201cexplicitly damning\u201d the Nazis\u2019 medical atrocities until 1949, four years after World War II ended.The new article, published in this week\u2019s issue of the journal, is part of a series started last year to address racism and other forms of prejudice in the medical establishment. Another recent article described the journal\u2019s enthusiastic coverage of eugenics throughout the 1930s and \u201940s.\u201cLearning from our past mistakes can help us going forward,\u201d said the journal\u2019s editor, Dr. Eric Rubin, an infectious disease expert at Harvard. \u201cWhat can we do to ensure that we don\u2019t fall into the same sorts of objectionable ideas in the future?\u201dIn the publication\u2019s archives, Dr. Abi-Rached discovered a paper endorsing Nazi medical practices: \u201cRecent changes in German health insurance under the Hitler government,\u201d a 1935 treatise written by Michael Davis, an influential figure in health care, and Gertrud Kroeger, a nurse from Germany. The article praised the Nazis\u2019 emphasis on public health, which was infused with dubious ideas about Germans\u2019 innate superiority.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3639,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3640,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions\/3640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}