Godwin’s Law and the Limits of Bioethics and Holocaust Studies

Abstract

AbstractThis chapter examines the ways in which Godwin’s Law disallows good bioethical discussion on controversial topics in healthcare because of the ways in which it invokes improper Holocaust analogies. However, rather than concluding that contemporary bioethics never use the Holocaust as a point of reference, the chapter suggests productive ways that lessons of the Holocaust can inform moral deliberation in bioethics.