Seated in the defendants' dock of the 1946-47 Nuremberg Doctors' Trial are 20 physicians and three Nazi officials accused of committing medical crimes during the Holocaust.
LOS ANGELES (Nov. 14, 2024) --
WHAT
Cedars-Sinai’s Center for Medicine, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, in cooperation with the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet, will host a free event, open to the public, focusing on how the history of medicine, Nazism and the Holocaust is influencing the practice, students and practitioners of today’s health professions.
The program engages and expands upon the 2023 report “The Lancet Commission on Medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust: Historical Evidence, Implications for Today, Teaching for Tomorrow,” and it will address:
- How the commission report’s recommendations have already taken root globally, with curricular additions implemented from Germany to Africa
- The role health professionals can play in combating harm, discrimination and prejudice
- The implications of this history across a variety of fields in the health professions, such as the impact of broader ethical, social and political forces
- How health professions educators are using history-informed methods for professional identity development in their medical and nursing school teaching
- The debate about the ties between Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger, the namesake of the syndrome on the autism spectrum, and the Nazi regime’s murder of disabled children
WHO
Sari J. Siegel, PhD, founding director of the Center for Medicine, Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Cedars-Sinai and a member of The Lancet Commission on Medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust, will lead the event. Siegel can address Cedars-Sinai’s unique role in leveraging medicine’s history to influence modern healthcare practices and ethics, as well as similar efforts of fellow commissioners around the world.
WHEN
Monday, Nov. 18, 2024, 8:30 a.m.-2:15 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024, 3-6:30 p.m.
WHERE
Harvey Morse Auditorium at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
8700 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Virtual access will also be available via Zoom. Additional event information, including in-person and virtual attendance registration options, is here.
CONTACT
Kristin Reynolds | 424-241-8108 | [email protected]
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