Health and Human Rights Course

Spring 2008

PubH 6800: From Eugenics to Deadly Medicine and Back

Film and Lecture Sections

PubH 6800 Section 1 - Film (2 credits)
PubH 6800 Section 2 - Lecture (1 credit)

(Crosslisted with HIST 3960/5960)

All Sessions on Thursdays

A course in conjunction with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibition "Deadly Medicine" (Science Museum of Minnesota)

Instructor: Kirk C. Allison, Ph.D., M.S.

Open to all Academic Health Center, Graduate, Professional students and advanced undergraduates (interested others, including from the community, may contact instructor: 612-626-6559,  alli0001@umn.edu)

Enrollment via U of MN Onestop(Series open to the non-enrolled public)

From Eugenics to Deadly Medicine and Back (Thursdays, Spring 2008)

January 24  (6-9 p.m.,  Law 25, Film)
The Black Stork (1917, 50 min.) or  Homo Sapiens 1900 (1999, 85 min). Commentator: Kirk Allison, PhD, MS (Program in Human Rights and Health)

January 31 (6-9 p.m.,  Law 25, Film)
Architecture of Doom (1989, link between aesthetics, eugenics and  Holocaust, 119 min.) Commentator:   Prof. Philip Regal (Evolution, Ecology and Behavior)

February 7 (11:30-1:30 p.m. Coffman Memorial Union Theater, Lecture)
Prof. George Annas (Boston University, Deinard Memorial Lecture): "The Legacy of the Nazi Doctors Trial for American Bioethics and International Human Rights Law."

February 14 (6-9 p.m.,  Law  25, Film)
Selling Murder: The Killing Films of the Third Reich (1991, 45 min.) and Opfer der Vergangenheit (1937, 25 min.) Commentator:  Prof. Rick McCormick (Dept. of German, Scandinavian and Dutch)

February 21 (6-9 p.m.,  Law  25)
Film: Paragraph 175 (2000/2001, 81/75 min. Concerning legislation on homosexuality) Commentator: Prof. Rembert Hüser (German, Scandinavian, and Dutch)

Wednesday, 2/27 Deadly Medicine Exhibition Opens

February 28 (1-3 p.m., Moos Tower 2-530, Lecture)
Harriet Washington.  Medical Apartheid – Medical experimentation and African Americans

March 6  Deadly Medicine Exhibit Class Visit – 6 p.m.@ Science Museum of Minnesota- All

March 13  (1-3 p.m., Moos Tower 2-530, Lecture)
Patricia Heberer, PhD (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Historian):  “Putting Faces to a Faceless Crime: Profiles of  Nazi “Euthanasia” (T4) Victims during the Third Reich.”

March 27 (1-3 p.m., Moos Tower 2-530, Lecture) 
Hans-Walter Schmühl, Ph.D. (University of Bielefeld)“The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics, 1927-1945.” (7 p.m. HWS lecture at the Science Museum: National Socialism and Euthansia)

April 3 (6-9 p.m.,  Law 25, Film)
Unit 731: Japan's Biological Force (2002, 45 min) Commentator: Prof. Yue-him Tam (Department of History, Macalester College)

ALL- April 10 (7 p.m., Science Museum of Minnesota, Lecture/Film)  
Eva Kor,  Forgiving Dr. Mengele (2006, 86 min.) Commentator: Rabbi Joseph Edelheit

April 17 (1-3 p.m., Moos Tower 2-530, Lecture)
Mark Soderstrom, Ph.D. (Empire State College, SUNY): “Race and Eugenics: Minnesota and the Universityof Minnesota”

April 24 (1-3 p.m., Moos Tower 2-530, Lecture)
Margot De Wilde: “On surviving medical atrocity: Testimony of a Survivor”

May 1 (6-9 p.m.,  Law 25, Film)
Liebe Perla (2000; 63 min. Dwarf survivor of Auschwitz medical experimentation considers with a friend past history and contemporary issues regarding disability, prenatal diagnostics, and discrimination) Commentator: Kirk Allison, PhD, MS

May 4         Deadly Medicine Exhibition closes

May 8 (6-9 p.m., Law 25, Film)
The Elephant Man (1980, 124 min.), Commentator: Prof. John Eyler, PhD (History of Medicine)

May 15   Final Exam (6-9 p.m., Law  25)