Lecture Series
Introduction: Medical Ethics and the Holocaust - Opening Remarks
Sheldon Rubenfeld, M.D.
Dr. Rubenfeld's opening remarks from the Michael DeBakey Medical Ethics Lecture Series in 2007.
Play video Play Audio Download MP3The Discovery of DNA: Implications for the 21st Century
James Dewey Watson
1962 Nobel Laureate (Physiology or Medicine); one of the four discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule; Head of the Human Genome Project at the National Institutes of Health 1978-1992.
Play video Play Audio Download MP3In Search of Memory
Eric Kandel, M.D.
2000 Nobel Laureate (Physiology or Medicine) Fred Kavli Professor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Director of the Kavli Institute for Brain Sciences at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Play video Play Audio Download MP3Why is It So Hard to Learn the Ethical Lessons of the Holocaust?
Arthur Caplan
The Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics, Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Play video Play Audio Download MP3A More Perfect Human: The Promise and the Peril of Modern Science
Leon Kass, M.D., Ph.D.
Hertog Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Play video Play Audio Download MP3
From Long Island to Auschwitz
Edwin Black
Award-winning New York Times and international bestselling investigative author whose work focuses on genocide and hate.
Play video Play Audio Download MP3Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis
Sandra Carson, M.D.
Professor and Medical Director, Assisted Reproductive Technology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
Play video Play Audio Download MP3What Should We Tell Medical Students About Racial Hygiene, Cultural Diversity, the Doctor- Patient Relationship, and Professionalism?
Theresa Duello, Ph.D.
Professor and Medical Director, Assisted Reproductive Technology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
Play video Play Audio Download MP3What Should We Tell Medical Students About Racial Hygiene, Cultural Diversity, the Doctor- Patient Relationship, and Professionalism?
Jordan Cohen, M.D.
President Emeritus of Association of American Medical Colleges
Play video Play Audio Download MP3How Doctors Become Killers
Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D.
Chairman, The President's Council on Bioethics, Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University
Play video Play Audio Download MP3What is the Status of the Government-Citizen Relationship in the United States Today?
Ward Connerly
Founder and Chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute, President and Chief Executive Officer of Connerly & Associates, Inc., author of the autobiography, Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences
Play video Play Audio Download MP3Frankenstein or the More Perfect Human: Who Will It Be?
Susan E. Lederer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, History of Medicine, Yale University
Play video Play Audio Download MP3Immediate Gratification and the Quest for Perfection: A Frank Discussion about the Use of Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports
Mark Adickes, M.D.
Co-Medical Director, The Roger Clemens Institute for Sports Medicine & Human Performance, Memorial Hermann, Houston, Texas
Play video Play Audio Download MP3Disability and Genocide – Where Are We Today?
Lex Frieden
Senior Vice President at Memorial Hermann| TIRR Hospital, Chairperson of the National Council on Disability
Play video Play Audio Download MP3Michael Burleigh's film "Selling Murder" followed by lecture: "Cinematic Perspectives on Euthanasia and Assisted-Suicide"
Glen O. Gabbard, M.D.
Brown Foundation Professor of Psychoanalysis, Professor, and Director, Baylor Psychiatry Clinic, Baylor College of Medicine
Play video Play Audio Download MP3The Legacy of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial to American Bioethics and Human Rights
George J. Annas, J.D., M.P.H.
Edward R. Utley Professor and Chair, Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health
Play video Play Audio Download MP3Power for Life or Power for Death? How and Why Science and Religion can Work Together for Life After the Holocaust
Rabbi Irving Greenberg, Ph.D.
President, Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation
Play video Play Audio Download MP3Science, Medicine and Religion after the Holocaust
John M. Haas, Ph.D. S.T.L.
President, National Catholic Bioethics Center
Play video Play Audio Download MP3Physician Aid in Dying: When and Why Should This Option be Available? What Happens When Aid in Dying is Legal?
Kathryn L. Tucker, J.D.
Director of Legal Affairs for Compassion & Choices, Co-counsel in Oregon vs. Ashcroft
Play video Play Audio Download MP3Science, Medicine and Religion after the Holocaust
Wesley Smith, LL.B.
Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, and an attorney for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, and a special consultant for the Center for Bioethics and Culture
Play video Play Audio Download MP3Academic Medicine during the Nazi Period and Implications for Creating Awareness of Professional Responsibility Today?
Prof. Dr. Volker Roelcke
Director, Institute of the History of Medicine, Germany
Play video Play Audio Download MP3Academic Medicine during the Nazi Period and Implications for Creating Awareness of Professional Responsibility Today?
William Seidelman, M.D.
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto
Play video Play Audio Download MP3Mad, Bad or Evil: How Physician Healers Turn to Torture, Murder and Genocide From the Nazi Doctors to Abu Ghraib
Michael Grodin, M.D.
Professor of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights, Department of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health; Professor of Socio-Medical Sciences, Community Medicine, and Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine
Play video Play Audio Download MP3Is Medicine a Pacifist Vocation, or Should Doctors Help Build Bombs?
Michael L. Gross, Ph.D.
Chair, Division of International Relations, School of Political Sciences, The University of Haifa, Israel
Play video Play Audio Download MP3From Nuremberg to the Human Genome and Beyond – From Human Rights to Human Interests
Henry T. "Hank" Greely, J.D.
Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Play video Play Audio Download MP321st Century Genetics: Maximizing Benefits, Minimizing Harms
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
Play video Play Audio Download MP321st Century Genetics: Maximizing Benefits, Minimizing Harms
Christine Rosen, Ph.D.
Fellow for the Project on Biotechnology and American Democracy at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and senior editor of The New Atlantis.
Play video Play Audio Download MP3Assessing Risk in Patient Care
George Noon, M.D.
Professor and Chief of the Division of Transplant Surgery and Assist Devices in the Michael E. DeBakey Dept. of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Play video Play Audio Download MP3Risky Medical Treatments - Jewish Perspective
Avraham Steinberg, M.D.
Director of the Center for Medical Ethics, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem and winner of the Israel Prize for his Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics
Play video Play Audio Download MP3Interview of Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, May 16, 2008
Michael E. DeBakey, M.D.
Pioneering cardiovascular surgeon; developed the mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) units and established the Veteran's Administration Medical Center Research System; Chairman of the Department of Surgery (1948-1993), President (1969-1979), Chancellor (1979-1996), and Chancellor Emeritus (1996-2008) at Baylor College of Medicine; recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal in 2008; deceased July 13, 2008.
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