title: [Medicine and Crime Against Humanity. Dr. Adélaïde Hautval's Legacy].
abstract: This article approaches the testimony of the Alsatian psychiatrist Dr Adélaïde Hautval on the pseudo-medicine that was practiced in the Medical experimentation Block 10 of Auschwitz Birkenau, and on her refusal to take part in this crime against humanity. By reading her deportation diary and the acts of a peculiar judgment in Auschwitz that was celebrated in London in 1964, we are confronted with the ethical and professional dilemmas that doctors, who were themselves prisoners, had to face in this situation, and that incited them to resist inhumanity by acts, to disobey their superiors, and to be solidary with the victims. This attitude enlightens us on the course to follow in front of the bio-political policies of today.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Filosofía del Derecho, Moral y Política Campus dels Tarongers. Universitat de Valància 46071-Valencia (Spain) ebea@uv.es.
authors.forename: Emilia
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bea
mesh_terms: D026688:Bioethical Issues / Q000266:history; D004992:Ethics, Medical / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D017767:Holocaust / Q000266:history*; D010820:Physicians / Q000941:ethics*; D010822:Physicians, Women; D011329:Prisoners / Q000266:history*