title: Research and complicity: the case of Julius Hallervorden.
abstract: The charge of complicity has been raised in debates over the ethics of fetal tissue transplantation and embryonic stem cell research. However, the applicability of the concept of complicity to these types of research is neither clear nor uncontroversial. This article discusses the historical case of Julius Hallervorden, a distinguished German neuropathologist who conducted research on brains of mentally handicapped patients killed in the context of the Nazi 'euthanasia' programme. It is argued that this case constitutes a paradigm of complicity in research that is useful in assessing complicity in contemporary research ethics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1156, USA. fmiller@nih.gov
authors.forename: Franklin G
authors.initials: FG
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D028661:Complicity; D032984:Ethics, Research; D005065:Euthanasia / Q000941:ethics / Q000266:history*; D016332:Fetal Tissue Transplantation / Q000941:ethics*; D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006805:Human Experimentation / Q000941:ethics*; D006801:Humans; D028683:National Socialism; D010820:Physicians / Q000941:ethics; D011056:Political Systems; D012106:Research; D057905:Stem Cell Research / Q000941:ethics*; D014858:War Crimes / Q000266:history*