Paul Farmer speaks on role of medical professionals in Nazi Plan
Posted on Oct 1, 2010
We encourage anyone in the Boston-area to join us for this thought-provoking event on October 5, 2010 at 7 p.m. Please note that reservations are requested; register online at www.ushmm.org/events/bostonoct5.
How Did Medical Professionals Become Complicit in the Nazi Plan?
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 7 p.m.
Boston Public Library
Sidney R. and Esther V. Rabb Lecture Hall
Johnson Building, Lower Level, 700 Boylston St.
Featured Speakers
Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D., Presley Professor and Chair
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine Harvard Medical School
Jay Allison, Independent Broadcast Journalist and Curator of This I Believe for National Public Radio
In April 2011, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in partnership with Harvard Medical School, brings its special exhibition Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race to Boston. Deadly Medicine examines the role of the German medical community in supporting and implementing the Nazis' murderous program of eugenics and the implications this has for today.
In the first in a series of provocative programs designed to complement the exhibition, renowned humanitarian Dr. Paul Farmer and National Public Radio's Jay Allison will explore medical ethics and some of the most pressing dilemmas of our time, including equal access to health care and the role physicians and other health care professionals play in creating a world free of human suffering.
This program is free and open to the public, and you are encouraged to bring guests. Reservations are requested; register online at www.ushmm.org/events/bostonoct5.
