Zygo Inaugural Roundtable - Holocaust Experiments’ Effects on Modern Medicine

Human experimentation was a major war crime, among others, during the Holocaust. At the forefront of these crimes was Dr. Josef Mengele, a physician bent on proving the superiority of the Aryan race. His cruel experiments resulted in the death and disability of many and yielded numerous dissertations.

USC Shoah Foundation will be co-sponsoring a panel, hosted by the Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics and the Harman Academy for Polymathic Study, to discuss the ethical implications of the existence of these materials in modern medicine. How do the contents of these scientific and pseudo-scientific dissertations help us? What are the conceivable uses for these texts? What can we learn from these experiments? How have we used other ethically questionable medical or psychological experiments to inform us ethically and academically?