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A More Perfect Human: The Promise and the Peril of Modern Science
Hertog Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
Academic 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
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
What Happened to the Primary Victims of the Nazi Public Health Policy of "Applied Biology"?
The Nazi public health policy of “Applied Biology” was meant to rid the world of groups of people deemed to have genetic defects that...
Recently Viewed Films
I recently watched four films with relevance to medicine and the Holocaust: The Architecture of Doom, which indicates that half of the...
American Eugenics
As unfamiliar as most people are with Nazi eugenics, they are even less familiar with American eugenics. American eugenicists provided...
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...
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 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...
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...
Overview of Nazi Medicine and the Ethical Violations During National Socialism
By Susan Benedict, CRNA, PhD, FAAN Objectives: Describe the practice of medicine in Nazi Germany. Analyze medical practice and...
Introduction to Medical Ethics and the Holocaust
Dr. Rubenfeld’s opening remarks from the Michael DeBakey Medical Ethics Lecture Series in 2007. Most people, including medical...
Involuntary Sterilization in the US and Germany
Dr. Susan C. Benedict, CRNA, PhD, FAAN is Professor of Nursing, Director of Global Health, Department Chair at University of Texas Health...
How Healers Became Killers
Dr. Susan C. Benedict, CRNA, PhD, FAAN is Professor of Nursing, Director of Global Health, Department Chair at University of Texas Health...