THREE NOBEL LAUREATES SPEAK AT UH TO LAUNCH
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM PROGRAM
Fifteen-part Free Public Lecture Series Examines ‘Medical
Ethics and the Holocaust’
HOUSTON, Sept. 4, 2007 – Three Nobel Prize winners will
speak at the University of Houston on Sept. 9 to kick off the Holocaust
Museum Houston’s 15-part, free public lecture series exploring
how the medical practices of the Third Reich continue to influence
modern-day society.
The “Medical Ethics and the Holocaust” lecture series
opens at 7 p.m. at UH’s Cullen Performance Hall. DNA pioneer
James Watson, Ph.D., 1962 Nobel Laureate, medicine or physiology,
and Eric Kandel, M.D., 2000 Nobel Laureate, medicine or physiology,
will offer their views on “Science and Medicine After the
Holocaust.” The lecture, co-sponsored by UH, will be moderated
by Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D., the 1998 Nobel Laureate, medicine or
physiology.
The University of Houston’s Elizabeth D. Rockwell Ethics
and Leadership Lecture concludes the lecture series on Jan. 17.
Speakers are Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director, National
Human Genome Research Institute, and Christine Rosen, Fellow, Project
on Biotechnology and American Democracy at the Ethics and Public
Policy Center and senior editor, The New Atlantis. Collins discusses
“21st Century Genetics: Maximizing Benefits, Minimizing Harms,”
while Rosen speaks on “What Does 21st Century Eugenics Look
Like? Both talks are at 7 p.m. at Cullen Performance Hall.
To register for the lectures, please visit: www.hmh.org/medethics.
For directions and parking information, visit: http://www.uh.edu/campus_map/buildings/A.html.
Other speakers and lectures included in the series,
all of which (except for the closing
lectures Jan. 17) take place at 6 p.m. at the Holocaust
Museum Houston, 5401 Caroline St., are:
September 18
Arthur L. Caplan, Ph.D., The Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor
of Bioethics, chair of the Department of Medical Ethics, director
of the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania; “Why
Is It So Hard to Learn the Ethical Lessons of the Holocaust?”
September 25
Leon R. Kass, M.D, Ph.D., Hertog Fellow, American Enterprise
Institute for Public Policy Research;
“A More Perfect Human: The Promise
and Peril of Modern Medicine”
October 2
Sandra Ann Carson, M.D., professor of obstetrics and gynecology,
Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University; “Pre-Implantation
Genetic Diagnosis”
Edwin Black, New York Times investigative author whose work focuses
on genocide and hate; “From Long Island to Auschwitz: The
Surprising Origin of the ‘Master Race’ Concept”
October 9
Theresa M. Duello, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of
Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and
Jordan Cohen, M.D., president emeritus, Association of American
Medical Colleges; “What Should We
Tell Medical Students about Racial Hygiene, Cultural Diversity,
the Doctor-Patient Relationship and Professionalism?”
Jordan Cohen, M.D., president emeritus, Association of American
Medical Colleges; “What Should We
Tell Medical Students about Racial Hygiene, Cultural Diversity,
the Doctor-Patient Relationship and Professionalism?”
October 16
Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D., chairman, The President’s Council
on Bioethics; professor emeritus of medicine and medical ethics
and adjunct professor of philosophy, Georgetown University;
“How Doctors Become Killers”
Ward Connerly, founder and chairman, American Civil Rights Institute;
president and CEO of Connerly & Associates, Inc.; and author
of the autobiography “Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race
Preferences”;
October 23
Mark Adickes, M.D., co-medical director, The Roger Clemens Institute
for Sports Medicine and Human Performance, Memorial Hermann; “Immediate
Gratification and the Quest for Perfection: A Frank Discussion
About the Use of Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports”
Susan E. Lederer, Ph.D., associate professor, history of medicine,
Yale University School of Medicine; “Frankenstein or the More
Perfect Human: Who Will It Be?”
October 30
Lex Frieden, senior vice president at Memorial Hermann-TIRR;
former chair, National Council on Disability; “Disability
and Genocide: Where Are We Today?”
November 6
Glen O. Gabbard, M.D., Brown Foundation Professor of Psychoanalysis,
professor and director, Baylor Psychiatry Clinic, Baylor College
of Medicine; “Cinematic Perspectives
on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide”
November 13
George J. Annas, J.D., Edward R. Utley Professor and chair, Department
of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights, Boston University School
of Public Health; “The Legacy of the
Nuremberg Doctors' Trial to American Bioethics and Human Rights”
November 20
Rabbi Irving Greenberg, Ph.D.; “Power
for Life or Power for Death? How and Why Science and Religion
Can Work Together for Life After the Holocaust”
John M. Haas, Ph.D., president, National Catholic Bioethics Center;
“Science, Medicine and Religion After
the Holocaust”
November 27
Kathryn L. Tucker, J.D., director, Legal Affairs for Compassion
& Choices; adjunct professor of law, Lewis & Clark School
of Law; “Physician Aid in Dying and
Why Should This Option be Available? What Happens When Aid in
Dying is Legal?”
Wesley Smith, senior fellow, Discovery Institute; attorney, International
Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide; and special consultant,
Center for Bioethics and Culture; “Is
Physician-Assisted Suicide Ever Permissible?”
December 4
Volker Roelcke, M.D., professor, chair and director, Institute
of the History of Medicine, University of Gissen, Germany; “Academic
Medicine During the Nazi Period and Implications for Creating
Awareness of Professional Responsibility Today”
William Seidelman, M.D., professor emeritus, Department of Family
and Community Medicine, University of Toronto; “Academic
Medicine During the Nazi Period and Implications for Creating Awareness
of Professional Responsibility Today”
December 11
Michael A. Grodin, M.D., professor, Department of Health Law,
Bioethics and Human Rights, Boston University School of Public
Health; “Mad, Bad or Evil: How Physician
Healers Turn to Torture, Murder and Genocide from the Nazi Doctors
to Abu Ghraib”
Michael L. Gross, Ph.D., chair, Division of International Relations,
School of Political Sciences, The University of Haifa, Israel; “Is
Medicine a Pacifist Vocation or Should Doctors Help Build Bombs?”
January 7
Henry T. Greely, J.D., Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor
of Law, Stanford Law School; “From
Nuremberg to the Human Genome and Beyond -- From Human Rights
to Human Interests”
January 17
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director, National Human Genome
Research Institute; “21st Century
Genetics: Maximizing Benefits, Minimizing Harms”
Christine Rosen, Ph.D., Fellow, Project on Biotechnology and American
Democracy at the Ethics and Public Policy Center; and senior editor,
The New Atlantis; “What Does 21st Century
Eugenics Look Like?”
For more information about the series and the Holocaust Museum,
please see: http://www.nodussolutions.com/
MedicalEthics/HomeDisplay.aspx.
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