Received: from college.sit.edu.my (college.sit.edu.my [202.184.64.2]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.8.4/8.8.4/CNS-4.1p-nh) with SMTP id XAA26090 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 23:36:54 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pmail.sit.edu.my by college.sit.edu.my (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06449; Fri, 10 Apr 98 13:38:49 SST Received: from LION/SpoolDir by pmail.sit.edu.my (Mercury 1.21); 10 Apr 98 13:39:53 +0800 Received: from SpoolDir by LION (Mercury 1.30); 10 Apr 98 13:39:11 +0800 From: "DR. PHUA KAI LIT" To: medsoc@csf.colorado.edu Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 13:39:09 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: modernization & medicine: need help on concept Message-Id: (1) I remember reading Rober Jay Lifton's book on the "Nazi Doctors" a few years back. (2) The unit in the Japanese Imperial Army which conducted horrible medical experiments on POWs and others in Manchuria during WW2. ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 21:36:34 -0500 Reply-to: MedSoc@csf.colorado.edu From: "Jeanne A.B. Calabro" To: MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY Subject: Re: modernization & medicine: need help on concept This was really my own extension of someone else's argument that came pretty close. A Harvard historian wrote a paper (I don't have the reference readily available, but I can get it for you) about three-four years ago, discussing the context that would permit someone trained to preserve life and have compassion for sick people to subject anyone to the medical experimentation that occurred at the hands of German/Nazi doctors during WWII.