What:

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Insights,” program is a series of discussions featuring leading physicians, scientists, bioethicists, and social commentators exploring the impact of Nazi medical practices on contemporary medicine.

The second “Insights” program, “Doing Good: The Promise and Perils of Science,” will feature Dr. Ruth Faden and explore the implications of Nazi medical history in light of current medical innovations to enhance appearance and intelligence or prevent disease.

The programs are being held in conjunction with the Museum’s special exhibition, Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race, which examines how the Nazi state and collaborating scientists exploited then-contemporary scientific thought to eliminate people considered “inferior” in an attempt to build a “superior Aryan” race. The exhibition runs at the Museum through October 16, 2005.

Who:

Dr. Ruth Faden, Director of the Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute at Johns Hopkins University, and the daughter of Holocaust survivors.

The series host is Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield.

When:

Thursday, January 13, 7:00 p.m.

Upcoming speakers include:

• Leon Wieseltier, Literary Editor, The New Republic, February 10, 2005.

• Leon Kass, Chairman, President’s Council on Bioethics, and the Addie Clark Harding Professor, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, March 17, 2005

• Arthur Caplan, Founding Director, University of Pennsylvania, Center for Bioethics, April 12, 2005.

The first program featured best-selling author and Clinical Professor of Surgery at Yale University, Sherwin Nuland.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Pl. SW
Metro: Smithsonian, Orange/Blue Lines:

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Admission is free, but reservations are requested at (202) 488-0407.
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