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Forgiving Mengele
The Jewish High Holidays are about to begin. One of these holidays is forgiveness. Eva Kor, survivor of Mengele’s notorious experiments...
New Conference Videos from Houston Methodist Research Institute
Houston Methodist Research Institute (HMRI) has generously co-hosted several conferences with our Center for Medicine after the Holocaust...
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...
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...
Roles of Physicians and Nurses in the Medical Experiments Related to "Racial Hygiene"
Dr. Susan C. Benedict, CRNA, PhD, FAAN serves as Professor of Nursing, Director of Global Health, as well as Department Chair at...
70th Anniversary of the Doctors' Trial - History of Nuremberg Code
This article discusses the Nazi Euthanasia program, as well as abuses in medical experiments including the use of “decompression...
Max Planck Institute Desire to Take Moral Responsibility for its Unethical Research
Summarizing a significant development in human subjects research, Science reported today that the Max Planck Institute, known as the The...
Force Feeding Prisoners
The treatment of prisoners during the Holocaust violated all conventions of human behavior. Prisoners were starved, beaten, used in...