Richard Weikart: Medicine’s Descent From Healing to Killing

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🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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If we believe there is no qualitative distinction between animals and humans, are we more likely to protect human life or devalue it? On this episode of ID The Future, host Eric Anderson talks to historian Dr. Richard Weikart about his latest book, Unnatural Death: Medicine's Descent From Healing to Killing, now available from Discovery Institute Press. The book is a wide-ranging history of euthanasia and assisted suicide from Ancient Greece to today. How did we get to the point we are at today, and how do we turn the tide to promote the sanctity of human life? Tune in to find out. Source

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0:00.0	I. Welcome to ID the Future. I'm Eric Anderson and today I'm pleased to be joined by
0:17.1	Dr Richard Weicart, emeritus professor of history at California State
0:21.1	University Stanislaus and a senior fellow with the Discovery Institute Center for Science and Culture.
0:27.0	Dr. Weicard is author of From Darwin to Hitler, Hitler's Ethic, Hitler's Religion, and the death of humanity.
0:35.3	Our topic today is his latest book now available from Discovery Institute Press titled
0:39.5	Unnatural Death, Medicine's Dissent, From Healing to Killing.
0:44.0	Richard, welcome back to the show.
0:46.0	Yeah, thanks for having me on.
0:47.0	Yes, absolutely.
0:48.0	This is an important topic.
0:49.0	We're excited to dive into it today.
0:51.0	I wanted to start with one of the endorsements of your book by professor
0:55.1	and author Nancy Pirsey. She writes, the only way to stand effectively against a harmful
1:01.3	social trend is to first understand where it came from and how it developed.
1:06.0	And in unnatural death you help us do this by giving us a wide-ranging history of euthanasia and assisted suicide. So let's start with a quick look at how this new book relates to your previous work.
1:18.0	In the death of humanity, you explore our culture's decline in respect for the sanctity of human life and then in your books about Adolf Hitler you examine the connection between his evil actions and the evolutionary ethics I would say that inspired him.
1:33.0	How does this new book, unnatural death, build on the topics that you explored in those prior books?
1:38.0	Yeah, well, there's a number of ways.
1:42.0	Going back to even my book from Darwin to Hitler,
1:44.0	I dealt with the issue of euthanasia actually in there
1:46.9	and looking at how German Darwinists
1:49.3	in the late 19th century had promoted euthanasia.
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