CONFERENCE: MEDICAL REVIEW AUSCHWITZ
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The violations of medical ethics during the Second World War, with special focus on the behaviour of physicians and other medical professionals in Nazi medical institutions and concentration camps, will be the main topic of the 2nd international conference "Medical Review – Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire". It will take place in Cracow on 7-8 May 2019.
Presentations delivered during the conference will concern such topics, as: "Motivations of Nazi doctors and whether these motivations have modern day relevance", "Medicine and morality under the Nazis", "Teaching medical students about the history of doctors’ involvement in the Holocaust:
opportunities and challenges", "The case of German SS doctor Johann Paul Kremer" or "Long‑term psychosomatic impact in Holocaust offspring".
The program, registration information and other details about the conference are available here.
Conference participants will also have the opportunity to visit the Auschwitz‑Birkenau Memorial.