The Holocaust, medicine and becoming a physician: the crucial role of education
Learning about the abandonment of moral principles of healthcare professionals and scientists, their societies and academic institutions, to a murderous ideology yields fundamental concerns and global implications for present and future healthcare professionals’ education and practice. Medicine’s worst-case scenario raises deeply disturbing yet essential questions in the here and now: Could the Holocaust, one of the greatest evils ever perpetrated on humankind, have occurred without the complicity of physicians, their societies, and the scientific profession community? How did healers become killers? Can it happen again?
Read More >>Curriculum for The Holocaust: Lessons for Medicine
Thank you to Champions Esteban González-López and Rosa Rios for adding their curriculum for The Holocaust: Lessons for Medicine to the CMATH website.
Read More >>Memory and Representation in Holocaust Cinema- syllabus
This course will explore Holocaust memory and representation in American and European cinema. To this end, students will utilize primary and secondary sources, including history, film, art, and philosophy.
Read More >>Students Visiting Holocaust-Related Sites
How visiting Holocaust sites can aid in teaching Medical Ethics.
Read More >>Healing by Killing: Medicine in the Third Reich
A syllabus from Rice University and an outline of an elective course at Baylor College of Medicine along with a student paper from the Baylor class about medicine in Germany and the United States from 1900 to the end of World War II.
Read More >>Medical Ethics and the Holocaust
Does the fact that Nazi doctors conducted experiments on human beings and that German medical scientists played a central role in perpetrating the Holocaust guarantee that doctors and other health-science professionals are practicing medicine more ethically today? If the best-trained physicians of the early twentieth century were capable of such transgressions, will those of the early twenty-first century be able to avoid a similar outcome?
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