“Doctors Gave the Orders: 75 Years After the Nuremberg Medical Trial” – Dec. 1-2, 2022
A Symposium co-sponsored by:
The Kennedy Institute of Ethics and
The Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Overview
Marking the 75th anniversary of the end of the Nuremberg Medical Trial and the announcement of the Nuremberg Code, this symposium brings together international experts in history, law, and ethics who will explore the trial and the events that led to it, and offer insights into the abiding relevance of the Nuremberg Medical Trial to medicine today. **Please see this flyer for speaker information
You may view recordings at the links below. All recordings have closed captions. Transcripts are also available below. (Note: Transcripts do not contain presenters’ slides. Slides may be seen on the video recordings.)
Thursday, December 1
New Research Auditorium, Georgetown University Medical Center
Welcome: Daniel P. Sulmasy, MD, PhD
Director, Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Introduction: Myles Sheehan, SJ, MD
Director, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics
Isaac Franck Lecture:
The Relevance of Medicine during the Third Reich
to Contemporary Medicine.
Rabbi Prof. Avraham Steinberg, MD
Director, Medical Ethics Unit
Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem
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Friday, December 2
Healey Family Student Center, Main Campus of Georgetown University
Session 1:
Introductory Remarks: Daniel P. Sulmasy, MD, PhD, Director, Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Moderator: Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD, Director, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics
8:40–9:30 am Medicine During the Third Reich
Sheldon Rubenfeld, MD, FACP
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
Executive Director, Center for Medicine after the Holocaust
9:30–10:30 am Doctors in the Camps
Holland Manon Kaplan, MD
Clinical Ethics Fellow, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Baylor College of Medicine
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Session 2:
11:00 am–12 noon The Nuremberg Medical Trial
Paul Weindling, PhD
Wellcome Trust Research Professor in History of Medicine
Oxford Brookes University
12:00–1:00 pm The Nuremberg Code
M. Gregg Bloche, MD, JD
Professor of Law,
Georgetown University School of Law
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1:00 pm–2:30 pm Lunch and Breakout sessions
Steinberg: The Medical Profession and the State — View recording
Weindling: Medical Experimentation During the Third Reich — View recording
Session 3:
2:30 – 3:30 pm Unit 731: Japanese Experiments and Trials
Anne S. Chao, PhD
Adjunct Lecturer in the Humanities and Advisory Board Member,
School of Humanities, Rice University
3:30 pm-4:15 pm Medical Ethics Then and Now
Daniel P. Sulmasy, MD, PhD
Director, Kennedy Institute of Ethics