[Cross posted from H-Eugenics]
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 03:43:34 -0000
From: "Aaron Gillette, H-Eugenics" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: H-Net Network on the History of Eugenics
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Subject: USHMM exhibition "Deadly Medicine"
Subject: USHMM exhibition "Deadly Medicine"
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Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 17:47:47 -0400
I thought that you might be interested in alerting your subscribers to
an online exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
called, _Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race_. The URL is
<http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/deadlymedicine/>.
A rough exhibition summary is:
From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to "cleanse"?
German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the
nation's "health."? Enlisting the help of physicians and medically
trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists, the Nazis
developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization
of "genetically diseased"? persons and ended with the near annihilation
of European Jewry.
To relate this history, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has
assembled objects, photographs, documents, and historic film footage
from European and American collections and presents them in settings
evoking medical and scientific environments. Deadly Medicine: Creating
the Master Race provokes reflection on the continuing attraction of
biological utopias that promote the possibility of human perfection.
From the early twentieth-century international eugenics movements to
present-day dreams of eliminating inherited disabilities through genetic
manipulation, the issues remain timely.
Sincerely yours,
David Klevan
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David Klevan
Education Manager for Technology and Distance Learning Initiatives
Division of Outreach Technology United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Phone: (202) 488-0462
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