The Holocaust & (Bio-)Ethics Education: Setting the Context

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Published: Dec 31, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/cjp.21959
Keywords:
Holocaust education health professionals social discourse bioethics
Stacy Gallin
Misericordia University
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6076-8773
Ira Bedzow
New York Medical College
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6570-658X
Abstract
Holocaust education is important for learning how healthcare has been leveraged to influence social change in the past and how it can be used to advocate for ethical social change in the future.  By understanding how medical professionals became the social and political leaders of Nazi Germany, today’s health professionals can learn how to avoid unethical politicization.  By understanding how early twentieth century discourse on medico-social issues used terms and language that are similar, if not the same, as today’s debates, proponents of different sides of these debates can understand the troubling subtexts and potential consequences of their – and the opposing side’s – positions.
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Author Biographies
Stacy Gallin, Misericordia University

Founding Director of the Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics and the Holocaust (MIMEH)

Director, Center for Human Dignity in Bioethics, Health, and the Holocaust at Misericordia University

Co-Chair, Department of Bioethics and the Holocaust of the UNESCO Chair of Bioethics (Haifa)

Faculty, Department of Education of the UNESCO Chair of Bioethics (Haifa)

Ira Bedzow, New York Medical College

Associate Professor of Medicine, UNESCO Chair of Bioethics, and Director of the Biomedical Ethics and Humanities Program, New York Medical College, USA.

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