From Eugenics to Deadly Medicine and Back (series)

in memoriam: Stephen Feinstein, PhD

A series in conjunction with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race” at the Science Museum of Minnesota, Feb 27 through May 4, 2008:

-February 28: Harriet Washington. “Medical Apartheid.”

-March 13: Patricia Heberer, PhD, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Putting Faces to a Faceless Crime: Profiles of Nazi Euthanasia Victims.”

-March 27: Hans-Walter Schmühl, PhD, University of Bielefeld, Germany. “The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics.”

-April 17: Mark Soderstrom, PhD, SUNY. “Race and Eugenics: Minnesota and the University of Minnesota.”

-April 24: Margot de Wilde. “On Surviving Medical Atrocity: Testimony of a Survivor.”

Resources

The Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum link to the online overview of elements of the exhibit iswww.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/deadlymedicine

The Science Museum of Minnesota link to the exhibition (Feb. 27-May 4) iswww.smm.org/deadlymedicine

The University of Minnesota Program in Human Rights and Health:www.phrh.umn.edu

The University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies:www.chgs.umn.edu

full conference audio proceedings: Center for Bioethics Conference on Medical Ethics and the Holocaust, May 17-19, 1989. Convened by Professor Arthur Caplan, Director, Center for Bioethics (now at University of Pennsylvania).www.chgs.umn.edu/educational/confAudio.html

lecture proceedings: George J. Annas, JD, MPH, Boston University. The Legacy of the Nazi Doctors’ Trial for American Bioethics and International Human Rights Law. February 7, 2008. Deinard Memorial Lectures on Law & Medicine organized by the Consortium for Law and Values in Health, Environment and the Life Sciences.

Stephen Feinstein, PhD. “Deadly Medicine/Racial Hygiene.” February 12, 2008. Science Museum of Minnesota.

Kirk C. Allison, PhD, MS. “From Eugenics to Deadly Medicine to the Holocaust (Docent Training).” February 12, 2008. Science Museum of Minnesota.

Contact
For more information contact Kirk Allison: alli0001 at umn.edu or 612 626-6559.