{"id":13265,"date":"2005-04-14T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13265"},"modified":"2023-01-28T18:03:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T02:03:28","slug":"without-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13265","title":{"rendered":"Without Conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Elie Wiesel<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"190\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/nejm.jpg\" alt=\"New England Journal of Medicine, NEJM\" class=\"wp-image-11214\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">New England Journal of Medicine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br>Inspired by Nazi ideology and implemented by its apostles, eugenics and euthanasia in the late 1930s and early 1940s served no social necessity and had no scientific justification. Like a poison, they ultimately contaminated all intellectual activity in Germany. But the doctors were the precursors. How can we explain their betrayal? What made them forget or eclipse the Hippocratic Oath? What gagged their conscience? What happened to their humanity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Wiesel E. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1056\/NEJMp058069\">Without Conscience<\/a>. N Engl J Med.. 2005 Apr 14;352(15):1511-1513. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elie Wiesel ExtractInspired by Nazi ideology and implemented by its apostles, eugenics and euthanasia in the late 1930s and early 1940s served no social necessity and had no scientific justification. Like a poison, they ultimately contaminated all intellectual activity in Germany. But the doctors were the precursors. How can we explain their betrayal? 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