Panel Examines Nazi Medical and Legal Ethic

The John Marshall Law School Center for International Law and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum presented “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race through Persecution and Murder” on Nov. 15, 2010. The discussion focused on the medical and legal ethics that failed to surface during Germany’s Nazi reign. Associate Dean Ralph Ruebner (second from left) and Professor Shahram Dana (third from left), program moderator, welcomed guest presenters (from left) Dr. Matthew K. Wynia, director of the Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Society, Professor Sydney Halpern of the University of Illinois-Chicago; Patricia Heberer, a historian at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Professor Walter Kendall of The John Marshall Law School; and Professor Matthew Lippman of the University of Illinois-Chicago.