Gillam, Lynn
1 Articles at Lifeissues.net

Professor Lynn Gillam is the Academic Director of the Children’s Bioethics Centre. She is an experienced clinical ethicist, originally trained in philosophy (MA, 1988, Oxon) and bioethics (PhD, Monash, 2000). Lynn is also Professor in Health Ethics at the University of Melbourne, in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health.

Articles

Is it ethical to use data from Nazi medical experiments?

It's not. It would deny or downplay the evil of how they were obtained. During World War II, Nazi doctors had unfettered access to human beings they could use in medical experiments in any way they chose. In one way, these experiments were just another form of mass torture and murder so our moral judgement of them is clear.

Date posted: 2020-09-26