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Science, medicine, and religion are powerful social forces. The Hippocratic Oath itself, the foundational document of ethical medical practice, calls upon deities to witness to the taking of it: “I swear by Apollo the Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant.”
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Robert N. Proctor, Racial Hygiene: Medicine under the Nazi? (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988), 177.
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Haas, J.M. (2010). Science, Medicine, and Religion in and after the Holocaust. In: Rubenfeld, S. (eds) Medicine after the Holocaust. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230102293_15
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