Medical Review Auschwitz: Medicine Behind the Barbed Wire is an annual international conference designed to educate the world’s medical community about medical ethics and practice in the context of the Second World War. It deals with medical, psychological and social consequences of persecution by physicians and other medical personnel in the Nazi German concentration camps as well as heroic efforts to provide medical aid by imprisoned members of the medical profession.
Open-access collection of English translations from the Polish scientific journal Przegląd Lekarski – Oświęcim (Medical Review – Auschwitz).
Medical Review Auschwitz is an academic platform exploring the medical aspects of Nazi German persecution in concentration camps, focusing on physician involvement and the resistance of prisoner doctors. It fosters discussions on wartime medical crimes’ impact on bioethics today. Key components of the project include an open-access journal and an annual conference.
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Medical Review Auschwitz is led by the Polish Institute for Evidence Based Medicine, a nonprofit nongovernmental organization. You can help us continue the project by making a donation. Thank you for your support.