The Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences and the Jewish Holocaust Centre present:
Nazi Medicine: the role of health professionals as agents of state control, then and now
Why do some doctors do good while others do evil?
This forum will explore the causes and effects of participation by health professionals in state-sponsored crimes. Speakers include experts in psychiatry, child abuse, law and medical ethics. They will discuss their perspectives and experiences surrounding this complex, confronting issue.
Date: 23 November 2008
Time: 1:30pm – 5pm
Venue: Smorgon Auditorium of the Jewish Holocaust Centre, 13-15 Selwyn Street Elsternwick
Tickets: $25 adult/professional, $15 student/concession
Contact: +61 3 9528 1985 or admin@jhc.org.au.
Bookings essential
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Victim of a medical experiment immersed in freezing water at the Dachau concentration camp.
Dachau, Germany, between August 1942 and May 1943. Yad Vashem photo. |
