list of medical eponyms with nazi associations list of medical eponyms with nazi associations this article lists medical eponyms which have been associated with nazi human experimentation or nazi politics. while normally eponyms used in medicine serve to honor the memory of the physician or researcher who first documented a disease or pioneered a procedure, the propriety of such names resulting from unethical research practices is controversial. in some cases terms closely related to doctors in the nazi era have fallen out of favor or there are active lobbying efforts to remove the original name from use. in other cases their use in the medical literature is sometimes presented with a caveat or footnote. the declining use of the nazi-era eponyms has itself been tracked in the literature. since 2007, the israel medical association journal and european neurology have each published articles cataloging eponyms honoring nazis and their collaborators. while the most direct nazi experimenters (such as josef mengele) were never honored, others who were members of the nazi party or whose research relied upon the nazi program—such as conducting research on the remains of nazi execution victims—have been honored. some physicians have used the nazi associations as an argument to discontinue the use of eponyms in medical naming conventions altogether, while others have argued that such nazi-associated eponyms should be retained as "a means of conveying immortal dishonor." both the israel medical association journal and european neurology articles advocated that eponyms honoring victims of the nazis be retained, while eponyms honoring nazi collaborators or benefactors be replaced. list of eponyms term replacement term named after nazi association of term asperger syndrome autism spectrum disorder hans asperger hans asperger "managed to accommodate himself to the nazi regime and was rewarded for his affirmations of loyalty with career opportunities. he joined several organizations affiliated with the nsdap (although not the nazi party itself), publicly legitimized race hygiene policies including forced sterilizations and, on several occasions, actively cooperated with the child 'euthanasia' program." beck–ibrahim disease congenital cutaneous candidiasis yusuf ibrahim "after the war, a commission investigating his activities concluded that dr. ibrahim supported the nazi euthanasia program." cauchois–eppinger–frugoni syndrome portal vein thrombosis hans eppinger " conducted cruel experiments on romani prisoners in the dachau concentration camp in order to test the potability of seawater. ... eppinger committed suicide with poison on 25 september 1946, one month before he was scheduled to testify in nuremberg." clara cell club cell max clara max clara "owed his career advancement in no small way to his membership in the nazi party and active support of its programme." in his 1937 paper, clara acknowledges that the sample he based his work on "was obtained from a prisoner executed by the nazi 'justice system'" hallervorden–spatz disease pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration julius hallervorden, hugo spatz " readily admitted that 697 brains he investigated during the nazi period were from victims of euthanasia. it is alleged that he was present at the killing of more than 60 children and adolescents in the brandenburg psychiatric institution on 28 october 1940. he was reported to have removed brain material himself from euthanasia victims in a nearby extermination (euthanasia) center." (