Perché un progetto “Medicina e Shoah”?

In 2011, a group of professors from the Faculties of Pharmacy and Medicine and Medicine and Dentistry of the “Sapienza” University in Rome started a seminar for students from the medical department entitled “From Nuremberg to the Belmont Report: the origins of Bioethics”, which explained the decisive role that the trial of the Nazi doctors had in the definition of medical ethics, bioethics, and standards of good practice. In 2013, these scholars inaugurated a monographic study structured over four meetings, which included study credits for students and ECM for healthcare professionals, under the title “Medicine and the Holocaust”, in order to study these issues indepth and show the evolution of doctrine and ethics from Eugenics to today. The initiative’s success resulted in the course being repeated and offered every year with a great response from the public, leading to a cross-disciplinary project, funded in 2015, on this subject. In 2016, the exhibit “Medicine and the Shoah. From Nazi experiments to bioethics” was opened, financed and supported with funding from the 8×1000 UCEI and hosted by several Italian universities.