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Euthanasia, or Youth in Asia? By Brigette Lee
First and second year Baylor College of Medicine students enrolled in Healing by Killing: Medicine during the Third Reich are required to...
The Selective Memory of Bioethics by C. Cody Miller
First and second year Baylor College of Medicine students enrolled in Healing by Killing: Medicine during the Third Reich are required to...
A Medical Student's Personal Reflections on Eugenics by Zach Solomon
Eugenics and euthanasia are discussed at length in the Healing by Killing: Medicine during the Third Reich elective I teach to first and...
Operation Paperclip, and Essay by Medical Student Elizabeth Adams
German doctors and scientists were perhaps the best in the world prior to WWII. Despite their immoral behavior during the Third Reich,...
Genetics and Modern Eugenics by Medical Student Amanda Broderick
Few people realize that eugenics was the driving force behind the Nazis’ political philosophy of “Applied Biology.” Even fewer realize...
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by Medical Student Varun Bora
Robert Proctor was widely acclaimed for his 1988 book Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis. He did not receive similar acclaim for...
Fear God Alone, a Poem by Medical Student Andrea Gerberding
I ask first- and second-year Baylor College of Medicine students who take the Healing by Killing: Medicine in the Third Reich elective to...
Personal Prejudices in Medicine by Medical Student Katherine French
In my Baylor College of Medicine elective Healing by Killing: Medicine during the Third Reich, students struggle with their newly...
The Influence of Healthcare Policy on Patient Care by Medical Student Maya Firsowicz
The medical profession’s status and its attitudes about patient care usually result from a negotiation between physicians, culture, and...
Euthanasia, Abortion, & the Death Penalty by Medical Student Jessica Tran
The content of the Healing by Killing: Medicine During the Third Reich elective is very stimulating for the first- and second-year...
The Making of a Modern Frankenstein by Medical Student Monika Pyarali
In his quest for a master race, Hitler has been compared to Mary Shelley’s creation Dr. Victor Frankenstein. Inspired by eugenics and...
Eugenics: Science as Morality
After WWII and the revelations of the Nazi Doctors’ Trial, eugenics was looked upon with disfavor. American eugenicists still believed in...
Teaching About the Holocaust: Influencing How Generations Will Learn from the Past
As Holocaust survivors are dying out, and as Israel, the Jewish State, is viewed more and more as an oppressor, there is a shift from...