California's Physician-Assisted Suicide Law
Dr. Aaron Kheriaty is a psychiatrist and medical ethicist at the University of California, Irvine. He has been writing, debating, and...
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The Discovery of DNA: Implications for the 21st Century
Dr. James Dewey Watson, having received the 1962 Nobel Laureate for his part in discovering the structure of the DNA molecule, discusses...
21st 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.
A More Perfect Human: The Promise and the Peril of Modern Science
Hertog Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
Academic Awareness 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
Why is it so Hard to Learn the Ethical Lessons of the Holocaust?
The Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics, Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Director of the Center for Bioethics...
Frankenstein or the More Perfect Human: Who Will It Be?
Associate Professor, History of Medicine, Yale University
Immediate Gratification and the Quest for Perfection: A Frank Discussion About the Use of Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports
Co-Medical Director, The Roger Clemens Institute for Sports Medicine & Human Performance, Memorial Hermann, Houston, Texas
The Legacy of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial to American Bioethics and Human Rights
Edward R. Utley Professor and Chair, Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health
Risky Medical Treatments- Jewish Perspective
Director of the Center for Medical Ethics, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem and winner of the Israel Prize for his...
Dachau, Hubertus, Strughold, and NASA
NASA is an organization that has been notorious for holding a lot of community and media attention. Space sciences in general seem to...
Interview of Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, May 16, 2008
Pioneering cardiovascular surgeon; developed the mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) units and established the Veteran’s Administration...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
The Vienna Protocol and Dealing with Human Remains from the Holocaust Era
CMATH presented an international webinar on January 29, 2018 titled The Vienna Protocol: Ethical Issues in Dealing with Human Remains...
Medical Ethics and the Holocaust
Dr David Brenner is Visiting Asst. Professor and Lecturer in Comparative Literature, Humanities, and Honors at University of Houston and...
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