The project is investigating various international print and online media, databases and archives for any information pertaining to medicine and its relationship with the Holocaust.
Ongoing Research Topics
- Medicine in the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Relevance of the Holocaust for Contemporary Medicine and Public Health
- Medical and Psychological Care for Survivors
- Child Survivors
- Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma-Children & Grandchildren of Survivors
- Pyschology of Resilience and Resistors
- Pyschology of Rescuers and Bystanders
- Pyschology of Perpetrators
- Rabbinic Responsa on Medicine and the Holocaust
- Jewish Physicians and their Function in the Ghettos & Camps
- Medicalized Kiling and the Nazi Euthanasia Program
- The Role of Physicians, Nurses, and Public Health Professionals during the Holocaust
- The Role of Academic Medicine in the Third Reich
- The Role of Physicians in the Sterilization Programs
- The Individual vs. the State in Medical Decision Making
- Military Medicine, Dual Loyalty and the Role of Physicians in War
- The Role of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in the Third Reich
- Medicine in the Weimar Republic
- Eugenics, Racial Hygiene, Social Darwinism and the Mentally Ill and Disabled in the US, Britain & Germany
- The Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial
- Human Experimentation and the Use of its Data
- The Nuremberg Code and Voluntary Informed Understanding Consent
- Public Health Practices in the Third Reich
- Genocides since the Holocaust and the Role of Medicine
- Appropriate Use of the Holocaust Analogy
- Teaching Medicine and the Holocaust