Articles and Commentary

Force Feeding Prisoners

The treatment of prisoners was very relevant during the Holocaust and remains so today.

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Max Planck Institute Desires to Take Moral Responsibility for Its Unethical Research

After more than 70 years the Max Planck Institute, known as the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute during the Third Reich, appears willing to take responsibility for its unethical human subjects research by opening its archives to four independent researchers for the next three years.

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Germany Grapples with Its African Genocide

Tens of thousands of Namibians were killed in what historians call the 20th century’s first genocide, and Germany is finally close to recognizing it as such.

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70th Anniversary of the Doctors’ Trial—History of Nuremberg Code

This article discusses the Nazi Doctors' Trial and its relation to the history of Eugenics. The authors suggest that we must learn these lessons from history in order to safeguard medical ethics today.

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Harvard’s Eugenics Era

Thank you to CMATH Champion Jaime Romanowsky for pointing out the article with the above title published in the March-April 2016 issue of Harvard Magazine.

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Human Biodiversity and Eugenics

Is human biodiversity a modern term for eugenics?

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