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Medicine in the Nazi Regime: Ethical Lessons Learned
on Focus on Disaster Medicine and Preparedness
One of the most horrific disasters in modern history, the Holocaust, is being illuminated through a lens that is of particular interest to medical professionals, through a traveling exhibit called Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race. Nazism's roots in biology and genetics interlinked medical professionals with its advocacy of a eugenic program that ultimately led to the murder of Jewish Europeans in the Holocaust. What ethical lessons can we learn from examining physician involvement with the Nazi regime and what they called "racial hygiene for the greater good"? Dr. Matthew Wynia, director of the Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association, stresses the importance for all medical professionals of understanding the role physicians played in implementing Nazi racial eugenics, and frames the ethical issues in the historical context of the early 20th century. How did German physicians succumb to the pseudo-science that formed the basis of Nazi racial eugenics, and what lessons can we learn from this? How did one of the worldwide leaders in the medical community fall from the forefront of medicine to orchestrate some of the worst crimes the world has ever seen? Hosted by Dr. Maurice Pickard.
Dr. Maurice Pickard attended medical school at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and completed his residency at the University of Illinois Hospital of Research and Education in Chicago and the University of California in San Francisco. He is board certified in internal medicine. He is retired from private practice and is currently focused on ethics in medicine. Most recently, he was a fellow at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Matthew Wynia is director of the Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association. Dr. Wynia is an internist and a specialist in infectious diseases. Dr. Wynia oversees a wide range of research projects on ethics in health care and is the the author of more than 125 published articles, book chapters and reports and a book on fairness in health care benefit design. His work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Health Affairs and other leading medical and ethics journals. Dr. Wynia is a past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), and has chaired the Ethics Forum of the American Public Health Association (APHA) and the Ethics Committee of the Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM). He cares for patients at the University of Chicago Hospital, where he is a clinical assistant professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases. Dr. Wynia received his MD from Oregon Health Sciences University School of Medicine. He completed his residency at the Deaconess Hospital in Boston. Dr. Wynia completed fellowships in geographic medicine and infectious diseases at Tufts' New England Medical Center, and completed an AHCPR post-doctoral fellowship in health services research at the New England Medical Center, both located in Boston.
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