Webinar – 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 from the Holocaust. This webinar reviewed recent discoveries of human remains from the Holocaust, both underground and in museums and medical schools, and the challenges of disposing of them.
Read More >>Force Feeding Prisoners
The treatment of prisoners was very relevant during the Holocaust and remains so today.
Read More >>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.
Read More >>Eugenics: Science as Morality by Medical Student Zane Foster
While enrolled in Healing by Killing: Medicine During the Third Reich, Zane Foster reflected upon eugenics in the early twentieth century and today, asking, "Why was it accepted then, yet so abhorrent now? I seriously questioned this myself throughout this term of medical school. I decided it came down to a combination of two major factors: the culture of science and the culture of the times."
Read More >>The Making of a Modern Frankenstein by Medical Student Monika Pyarali
While Monika Pyarali was enrolled in Healing by Killing: Medicine During the Third Reich, she reflected upon Nazi medical experiments, her undergraduate neuroscience research, and a 2015 proposal for a head transplant.
Read More >>New Conference Videos from Houston Methodist Research Institute
Houston Methodist Research Institute has posted videos from the HUMAN SUBJECTS RESEARCH AFTER THE HOLOCAUST CONFERENCE (December 5, 2012) and the FIRST INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS WORKSHOP ON MEDICINE AFTER THE HOLOCAUST
(March 2-4, 2015)