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Podcast: Clinician's Roundtable
Episode: Medicine in the Nazi Regime: Ethical Lessons Learned
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Guest: Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH
Host: Maurice Pickard, MD
One of the most horrific disasters in modern history, the Holocaust, is being illuminated through a lens that is of particular interest to medical professionals, through a traveling exhibit called Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race. Nazism's roots in biology and genetics interlinked medical professionals with its advocacy of a eugenic program that ultimately led to the murder of European Jews in the Holocaust. What ethical lessons can we learn from examining physician involvement with the Nazi regime and what they called "racial hygiene for the greater good"...