Hans Reiter and the politics of remembrance

Zaller, Robert

doi:10.1053/sarh.2003.49999

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“…The discussion also provoked a questioning of the value of eponymous designations in general, including alternative approaches to the problem [7,[167][168][169][170][171][172][173][174][175][176]. Some, including this author, believe that such "tainted" eponyms should continue in their original form [177,178].…”

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Medical Ethics in the 70 Years after the Nuremberg Code, 1947 to the Present

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Druml

Weindling

2018

Wien Klin Wochenschr

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Ethics has been an integral part of medicine since ancient times. However, the atrocities committed as part of Nazi medicine necessitated a novel approach, resulting in a framework of modern bioethical standards. Since World War II, we have witnessed a broad movement towards the introduction of normative regulations for medical research. This trend initially started with the Nuremberg Medical Trials and the "Nuremberg Code" of 1947, followed by the Helsinki Declaration of the World Medical Association of 1964, including later modifications and amendments. Furthermore there are relevant recommendations issued by the organs of the Council of Europe and by the World Health Organisation, the UNESCO Declarations and EU legislation, to name only the most important examples. Since the 1970s, the rapid and global development of the life sciences, with its unprecedented possibilities to interfere with basic aspects of human life, for example in reproductive medicine, has led to an even greater necessity to confront bioethical questions worldwide. The HIV pandemic burdening the Global South has required conducting research in different areas of the world and involving especially vulnerable populations. In view of these developments, the main topic of the conference was the influence of Nazi medical crimes, the Nuremberg Medical Trial and the resulting Nuremberg Code on the development of international bioethical norms, including the enduring impact of this legacy on today's medical research. In the 70 years since the promulgation of the Code, the world has changed: Research is based on the principles of exchange and cooperation, researchers are mobile, the internet provides a supporting framework removing national barriers. Although the European situation, with special attention to Austria, was part of the discussion, an important focus of the conference was on the role played by international organisations and their endeavours to establish normative standards for clinical research with a worldwide reach.

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Section: William E Seidelman Bsc MD Ccfp Fcfp Emeritus Professomentioning

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Medical Ethics in the 70 Years after the Nuremberg Code, 1947 to the Present

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Weindling

2018

Wien Klin Wochenschr

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“…The Double Life of Hans Reiter (1881e1969).'' Since then, numerous articles in the rheumatology literature [8][9][10][11][12][13][14] have addressed this controversy; the New York Times also ran an article on the controversy. 15 Furthermore, in October 2003 an international group of rheumatology journal editors decided against further use of the eponym in their journals.…”

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Declining use of the eponym “Reiter's syndrome” in the medical literature, 1998–2003

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2005

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

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Morbus Reiter oder reaktive Arthritis?

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There is an ongoing international discussion on whether the condition reactive arthritis should be named after a former Nazi functionary. The German dermatological community should participate in this debate. In 1916, Hans Reiter described a disease with the symptoms urethritis, conjunctivitis, and arthritis, which was later named after him. After becoming titular professor in May 1918, Reiter was appointed director of the regional public health department Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1926. At the same time he taught social hygiene at the University of Rostock, where he was appointed full professor in 1928. In 1931, Hans Reiter became a member of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). In July 1932 he was elected representative of the NSDAP to the seventh assembly of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After becoming its acting director in July 1933, Reiter was appointed president of the Reich public health department in Berlin on October 1, 1933. Both his excellent professional qualifications, as well as his National Socialist attitudes, were considered key criteria for taking over this important position. As the president of the Reich public health department, Reiter was said to have known about the conduct of experiments with typhus-fever at the concentration camp Buchenwald in which 250 humans died. From the end of the Second World War until 1947, Reiter was imprisoned in the Nuremberg Prison for War Criminals, but never convicted of a crime.

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Hans Reiter and the politics of remembrance

Cited by 5 publications

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Medical Ethics in the 70 Years after the Nuremberg Code, 1947 to the Present

Medical Ethics in the 70 Years after the Nuremberg Code, 1947 to the Present

Declining use of the eponym “Reiter's syndrome” in the medical literature, 1998–2003

Morbus Reiter oder reaktive Arthritis?

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