Cautions About Medicalized Dehumanization

Copyright

2021

Published By

American Medical Association

This article discusses the critical lessons that can be gleaned by examining two of the most salient relationships between racism and medicine during the Holocaust: first, connections between racism and dehumanization that have immediate, lethal, deleterious, longer-term consequences, and second, intersections of racism and other forms of hatred and bigotry, including discrimination against people with disabilities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people; and social and religious minorities.