Science’s moral silence surfaced when Auschwitz corpse disposal became a medical problem

Evidence

The self-imposed moral silence of science has, after all, revealed some of its less advertised aspects when the issue of production and disposal of corpses in Auschwitz has been articulated as a ‘medical problem’. It is not easy to dismiss Franklin M. Littell’s warnings of the credibility crisis of the modern university: ‘What kind of a medical school trained Mengele and his associates? What departments of anthropology prepared the staff of Strasbourg University’s “Institute of Ancestral Heredity”?’ — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 112

Categorization

• XREF: Directly evidences how scientific/bureaucratic framing strips moral content — a mechanism carried forward into Islamophobia analyses of expertise-enabled dehumanization. — connects to: The Holocaust was rational social management in scientific dress — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 207; Neither science nor the churches mounted effective resistance to Nazi inhumanity — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 319
• ADDENDUM: Parallels ‘On Sacrifice’ on experts framing atrocity as technical procedure; Mengele as bureaucratic-technical technician echoes how ritual violence becomes administratively normal.

Related

• Neither science nor the churches mounted effective resistance to Nazi inhumanity (similarity 0.84)
• The Holocaust was rational social management in scientific dress (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The Holocaust was rational social management in scientific dress #exemplifies (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 207
• Neither science nor the churches mounted effective resistance to Nazi inhumanity #expands (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 319