The Lancet Report on Medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust: Historical Evidence, Implications for Today, Teaching for Tomorrow
Please join the Medical University of Vienna, in partnership with The Lancet, as the Lancet Commission on Medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust launches its report on "medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust: historical evidence, implications for today, teaching for tomorrow.” Hear from report authors and scholars in the field about how the history of medicine in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust can inform our understanding of medicine today and in the future, and why it needs to be included in all fields of health care education.
The Nazi era arguably provides the best-documented historical examples of medical involvement in transgressions and crimes against vulnerable individuals and groups. Health professionals played an important role in formulating, supporting, and implementing the Nazi regime’s programme of eugenics and ‘racial hygiene.’
This included participation in forced sterilizations, coerced and often deadly human experiments, the ‘euthanasia’ killing programmes, medicalized killings in concentration camps, and selecting prisoners for murder in the extermination camps of the Holocaust. What happened in Europe during the Second World War has wide-ranging ramifications for medical professionals to this day. Confronting what happened in medicine in this period is crucial to inform the ethical practice of health care and to understand potential dangers in medicine today.
With this report, the commission aims to provide a reliable, up-to-date historical documentation and a thorough analysis of the implications. Teaching of this subject should be part of health professional curricula around the world, helping to promote ethical conduct, moral development, courage to stand up against antisemitism, racism, and other forms of discrimination, and the formation of a history-informed professional identity based on compassion.
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Programme
Moderation: Christiane Druml, Director, Ethics, Collections and History of Medicine, Medical University of Vienna
- Greetigs
Markus Müller
Rector, Medical University of Vienna
Miriam Sabin
North American Executive Editor The Lancet
Richard Horton
Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet
- Presentation of Report
Herwig Czech
Ethics, Collections and History of Medicine, Medical University of Vienna
Sabine Hildebrandt
Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
Shmuel Pinchas Reis
Center for Medical Education, Hadassah/Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Digital Medical Technologies, Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel
Shani Levany
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
- The Meaning of the Report for Survivors of Nazi Medical Experiments
Video testimonials by Lea Huber and Judith Barnea
Survivors of Josef Mengele’s twin experiments in Auschwitz
- Keynote Implications: Counteracting Inhumanity with Humanity – A Perspective of Confucian Global Ethics about the Lancet Report on Nazi Medicine
Jing-Bao Nie
Bioethics Centre, Dunedin School of Medicine
University of Otago, New Zealand
- Closing Remarks
Miriam Sabin
North American Executive Editor, The Lancet
- Coffee Break
- Chair and Welcome
Herwig Czech
Ethics, Collections, and History of Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
- Keynote History: Understanding the Enormity of the Holocaust –
The Perspective of Medicine
Dan Michman
The International Institute for Holocaust Research Yad Vashem, Professor (emeritus), Bar Ilan University, Israel
- Panel 1
Historical Evidence
Volker Roelcke
Institute for the History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine,
Giessen University, Germany
Respondent:
Natalia Aleksiun
Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies,
University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
- Coffee Break
- Panel 2
Aftermath and Implications for Today
Chair: Sabine Hildebrandt, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard
Medical School, Boston, USA
Matthew Wynia
Center for Bioethics and Humanities,
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, USA
Respondent:
Petra Fuchs
Heilpädagogik/Inclusion Studies,
University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz, Germany
- Panel 3
Teaching for Tomorrow
Chair: Shmuel Pinchas Reis, Center for Medical Education,
Hadassah/Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Digital
Medical Technologies, Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel
Hedy S. Wald
Clinical Professor of Family Medicine,Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, USA
Respondent:
Emma Nalianya
General Practitioner, Eldoret, Kenya.
Member of the Commission’s Student Advisory Council
- Keynote Education: Learning from the Past – Educating for a Better Future
Yvonne Steinert
Richard and Sylvia Cruess Chair in Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences McGill University, Canada
- Closing Remarks
Herwig Czech, Ethics, Collections, and History of Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Speakers
- Prof. Natalia Aleksiun, Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
- Prof. Herwig Czech, Ethics, Collections, and History of Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
- Dr. Christiane Druml, Director, Josephinum
- Prof. Petra Fuchs, Heilpädagogik/Inclusion Studies, University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz, Germany
- Dr. Sabine Hildebrandt, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
- Prof. Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet
- Prof. Dan Michman, Head, The International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem Professor (emeritus), Bar Ilan University
- Prof. Markus Müller, Rector, Medical University of Vienna
- Prof. Jing-Bao Nie, Professor of Bioethics, Bioethics Centre, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand
- Dr. Emma Nalianya, General Practictioner, Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital, Kenya. Member of the Commission’s Student Advisory Council
- Prof. Shmuel Pinchas Reis, Center for Medical Education, Hadassah/Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Digital Medical Technologies, Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel
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Prof. Volker Roelcke, Head, Institute for the History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine, Giessen University, Germany
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Dr. Miriam Lewis Sabin, North American Executive Editor, The Lancet
- Prof. Yvonne Steinert, Professor of Family Medicine and Health Sciences Education, Richard and Sylvia Cruess Chair in Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University
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Prof. Hedy Wald, Clinical Professor of Family Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, USA
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Prof. Matthew Wynia, Head, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, USA