Ulf Schmidt, PhD
Senior Professor of Modern History at the University of Hamburg
Professor Schmidt, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, is the author of Medical Films, Ethics and Euthanasia in Germany, 1933–1945 (2002); Justice at Nuremberg: Leo Alexander and the Nazi Doctors’ Trial (2004); Karl Brandt: The Nazi Doctor: Medicine and Power in the Third Reich (2007); Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments (2015); Propaganda and Conflict: War, Media and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century (2019), and Ethical Research: The Declaration of Helsinki, and the Past, Present, and Future of Human Experimentation (2020). His talk will address the influence of the Holocaust on medical ethics in the 20th century.
Sponsored by the Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine