AMA Journal of Ethics

The Nuremberg Code, the World Medical Association’s declarations of Geneva and Helsinki, and the Belmont Report share an origin in the Holocaust.

Health professions educators can express respect for the Holocaust’s legacies in health care in many ways.

Immorally acquired information, from Nazi experimentation or other sources, infects the body of scientific and biomedical knowledge.

One health professions school views the Holocaust as fundamental content knowledge in modern health care ethics, but teaching it is difficult.

The Holocaust differs from other instances of mass murder in that it was medically sanctioned genocide.

Dr Matthew Wynia joins us to discuss the importance and challenges of teaching Holocaust history to health professions students.

For many physicians, lack of understanding about brain death leads to confusion and muddles interactions with patients’ loved ones at the end of life.

Most clinicians receive little training in integrating Native healing into allopathic practice, which undermines patients’ autonomy and cultural values.

Tribal-university partnerships are fewer in education than in research, but just as important for expanding opportunity and improving health infrastructure.