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Harriet Washington, "Medical Apartheid."
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Harriet A. Washington has been a fellow in ethics at the Harvard Medical School, a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University. As a journalist and editor, she has worked for USA Today and several other publications, been a Knight Fellow at Stanford University and has written for such academic forums as the Harvard Public Health Review and The New England Journal of Medicine. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards for her work. Washington lives in New York City.

This lecture is part of "From Eugenics to Deadly Medicine and Back," a series in conjunction with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race" at the Science Museum of Minnesota, Feb 27 through May 4, 2008.

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in memoriam: Stephen Feinstein, PhD

A series in conjunction with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race" at the Science Museum of Minnesota, Feb 27 through May 4, 2008:

-February 28: Harriet Washington. "Medical Apartheid."

-March 13: Patricia Heberer, PhD, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. "Putting Faces to a Faceless Crime: Profiles of Nazi Euthanasia Victims."

-March 27: Hans-Walter Schmühl, PhD, University of Bielefeld, Germany. "The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics."

-April 17: Mark Soderstrom, PhD, SUNY. "Race and Eugenics: Minnesota and the University of Minnesota."

-April 24: Margot de Wilde. "On Surviving Medical Atrocity: Testimony of a Survivor."

All lectures and films are open to the public without enrollment. For a complete listing of events, please view this PDF.
To join one of these lectures live, please visit http://umconnect.umn.edu/pubh6800. (Lectures begin at 1pm Central Time on the dates listed.)

Resources
The Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum link to the online overview of elements of the exhibit is www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/deadlymedicine

The Science Museum of Minnesota link to the exhibition (Feb. 27-May 4) is www.smm.org/deadlymedicine

The University of Minnesota Program in Human Rights and Health: www.phrh.umn.edu

The University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies: www.chgs.umn.edu

full conference audio proceedings: Center for Bioethics Conference on Medical Ethics and the Holocaust, May 17-19, 1989. Convened by Professor Arthur Caplan, Director, Center for Bioethics (now at University of Pennsylvania). www.chgs.umn.edu/educational/confAudio.html

lecture proceedings: George J. Annas, JD, MPH, Boston University. The Legacy of the Nazi Doctors' Trial for American Bioethics and International Human Rights Law. February 7, 2008. Deinard Memorial Lectures on Law & Medicine organized by the Consortium for Law and Values in Health, Environment and the Life Sciences.

Stephen Feinstein, PhD. "Deadly Medicine/Racial Hygiene." February 12, 2008. Science Museum of Minnesota.

Kirk C. Allison, PhD, MS. "From Eugenics to Deadly Medicine to the Holocaust (Docent Training)." February 12, 2008. Science Museum of Minnesota.

Contact
For more information contact Kirk Allison: alli0001 at umn.edu or 612 626-6559.

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J. Michael Oakes, PhD, McKnight Presidential Fellow and Associate Professor, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology. play this lecture now

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