Join New York Medical College and Touro University for a deeper look at the Nuremburg Trials and its pivotal figures on its 75th anniversary, while engaging in the remembrance of all of the lives lost and affected by victims of the Holocaust.
Explore the impact of the Nuremburg Trials on the evolution of medical ethics through the perspective of experts in law and ethics. The Yom Hashoah commemoration will feature a unique perspective on the derivation of modern concepts of informed consent; the role of Nuremberg Prosecutor and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson in the trials and the development of the Nuremberg Code; Nazi doctors and their relevance today; and a conversation with the son of a guard at the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the primary orchestrators of the Holocaust. |