Complicity in the Practice of Medicine:
The Case of the Nazi Doctors
A Conversation With Matthew Morrison
12.00–1.30pm | Friday, November 7
Elm Library, 31 Whitney Avenue
German physicians were intimately involved in the Nazi regime and perpetration of the Holocaust, from medical experimentation to mass killings. How is it possible that a profession could so give itself over to evil? What might we learn today from physician complicity in the Shoah?
Matthew Morrison is a lecturer in medical humanities at Yale University and an E.R. physician in New York.
This event is open to all members of the Yale community. Lunch will be served.
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Psychologically speaking, nothing is darker or more menacing, or harder to accept, than the participation of physicians in mass murder.
—Robert Jay Lifton, The Nazi Doctors