NATS 1770 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Heredity, Operation Paperclip, Manhattan Project
24 Nov 2014
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Science, technology and ideology during wwii and the cold war: science and ideology. Ideology: collection of ideas behind a theory (i. e. political, economic, religious) usually proposed by dominant members of a society to all members of a society. War era with ussr and usa: nazi science answer to question raises a myriad of ethical and moral considerations. Prussian ministry bans non-voluntary experiments, experiments on minors or those done to vulnerable or incompetent in 1900; 1931 code contains even more sanctions. However, experiments in concentration camps are justified on basis that. Jewish, gypsy groups, etc are individuals not worthy of code of conduct because they are considered less than human, diseased. Doctors thus justify their actions based on their own idea of morality; makes their actions even worse (not lunatics without morals: the lysenko affair. Copyright 2009 vera pavri neo-lamarckian program went against conventional genetics of the day.
