There are many factors that come into play when dealing with medical issues but a major key reason is the government. The books The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation by Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames and The Nazi Doctors by Robert Jay Lifton can be used to highlight how government effects addressing medical issues. Both books illustrates how the government plays a key role when dealing with medical issues.
Starting with understanding how the democratic system works. The democratic society has many freedoms which include freedom of speech. Another key point is voting for our leaders. This gives a great push for politicians to try to convince people to vote for them. They would have to discuss many …show more content…
As there were several cases where the Doctors themselves were at risk of being killed; the people did not really have the right to complain about any medical epidemic or problems that were going on. The only people who could were the leaders of the Third Reich. The Nazi Doctors showed clearly that a few doctors ended up killing themselves after the war because of what they did. “Wirths killed himself not as an act of conscience but because he couldn’t face the responsibility [of what he had done]” (Lifton 409). As ordered, Wirths had to do typhus experiments on the Auschwitz prisoners. This is something that is very unethical and malpractice of medicine. Wirths had no other choice but to do this because if he did not do it the Nazi would kill him and find someone else that would. The whole Wirths story was to show that he could not face the world while being judge for all these crime he had committed. This was the Nazi’s order to do research on typhus but the practice itself was not ethical but no one spoke up during the time the experiments took place because this was a totalitarian …show more content…
“The Nazi Party targeted German youth as a special audience for its propaganda messages these messages emphasized that the Party was a movement of youth: dynamic, resilient, forward-looking, and hopeful”(ushmm.org). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (ushmm) states that Hitler was targeting the youth to build a nationalist society for him to control. So in reality the general mass was brainwashed and ignorant of the medical issues that arose during experiments. So the government is hiding information from the public to make it so there will be less likely a cry for change and help to fix the medical issues. While USA has had many people rise up and state their issues and spread awareness to everyone when a medical problem arises. “Janelle made a commitment to help women around the world by educating them about breast cancer and the importance of early detection” (nationalbreastcancer.org). Taking breast cancer to account and how the National Brest Cancer Foundation (NBCF) was created to educate people about this issue and how we need to help fund research to help resolve this problem. The US government did not do anything to stop this we can see
Starting with understanding how the democratic system works. The democratic society has many freedoms which include freedom of speech. Another key point is voting for our leaders. This gives a great push for politicians to try to convince people to vote for them. They would have to discuss many …show more content…
As there were several cases where the Doctors themselves were at risk of being killed; the people did not really have the right to complain about any medical epidemic or problems that were going on. The only people who could were the leaders of the Third Reich. The Nazi Doctors showed clearly that a few doctors ended up killing themselves after the war because of what they did. “Wirths killed himself not as an act of conscience but because he couldn’t face the responsibility [of what he had done]” (Lifton 409). As ordered, Wirths had to do typhus experiments on the Auschwitz prisoners. This is something that is very unethical and malpractice of medicine. Wirths had no other choice but to do this because if he did not do it the Nazi would kill him and find someone else that would. The whole Wirths story was to show that he could not face the world while being judge for all these crime he had committed. This was the Nazi’s order to do research on typhus but the practice itself was not ethical but no one spoke up during the time the experiments took place because this was a totalitarian …show more content…
“The Nazi Party targeted German youth as a special audience for its propaganda messages these messages emphasized that the Party was a movement of youth: dynamic, resilient, forward-looking, and hopeful”(ushmm.org). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (ushmm) states that Hitler was targeting the youth to build a nationalist society for him to control. So in reality the general mass was brainwashed and ignorant of the medical issues that arose during experiments. So the government is hiding information from the public to make it so there will be less likely a cry for change and help to fix the medical issues. While USA has had many people rise up and state their issues and spread awareness to everyone when a medical problem arises. “Janelle made a commitment to help women around the world by educating them about breast cancer and the importance of early detection” (nationalbreastcancer.org). Taking breast cancer to account and how the National Brest Cancer Foundation (NBCF) was created to educate people about this issue and how we need to help fund research to help resolve this problem. The US government did not do anything to stop this we can see