These same questions were raised more than 65 years ago as the doctors of Nazi Germany began their search for a more perfect “master race.” Their quest for knowledge led them to the pseudo-science of eugenics, eventually to euthanasia and finally mass extermination of those whose lives they determined were “unworthy” of life.

Holocaust Museum Houston’s unique exhibit “How Healing Becomes Killing: Eugenics, Euthanasia and Extermination” and 15-part “Medical Ethics and the Holocaust” lecture series will tell the story of the indispensable and enthusiastic participation of physicians and biomedical scientists in the murder of their very own patients and will explore how – despite the world’s horror at their activities – those same questions haunt modern medicine today.
Mincberg Gallery

Before the Nazis made murder efficient in the gas chambers, there first were the unspeakable “mercy deaths” to purge Germany of its mentally and physically ill population. This Holocaust Museum Houston exhibition will provide provocative historical documentation of the role played by scientists, physicians and government officials in the murder of Germany’s most vulnerable citizens.

  
Join Us for the Final Event in
"Medical Ethics and the Holocaust!"

"Medical Ethics and the Holocaust," a 15-part lecture series presented by Holocaust Museum Houston, concludes Jan. 17, 2008 with a warning against tampering with the genetic code - tampering that could lead to the next generation of discrimination. Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Christine Rosen, Ph.D., senior editor of The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology & Society, will both ask what happens when DNA tampering leads to genetic discrimination - the type of discrimination used against victims of the Holocaust more than 60 years ago. To register, click here.
  

Dr. Michael E. DeBakey Medical Ethics Lecture Series

Holocaust Museum Houston presents this 15-part, free public lecture series that will explore how the medical practices of the Third Reich continue to influence modern-day society.

Register now for this thought-provoking series of lectures by leading experts in science, academia, law, ethics and medicine.

The lectures will be moderated by Sheldon Rubenfeld, M.D.