Michael A Grodin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1740328 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael A Grodin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael A |
| FAMILY NAME | Grodin |
| SIGNATURE | GRODIN M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0929-8929 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dignity, Justice, and the Nazi Data Debate
Carol V.A. Quinn brings fresh attention to a continuing problem: the perpetuation of harm to Holocaust victims by present actions, in this case the use of data exploited from victims of the Nazi medical experiments. The first step in addressing this longstanding injustice, Quinn argues, is for survivors to take control of the data. Almost without exception, victims, and survivors’ voices have not been incorporated into guidelines and protocols fo…
Rabbinic Responsa and Spiritual Resistance during the Holocaust
In this article, we examine in detail a set of little-known texts arising from the Holocaust: the decisions given by rabbis in response to cases where the Germans and their collaborators attempted to force Jews to decide who among them would live and who would die. The genre that these decisions fit into is known as rabbinic responsa: the written decisions of rabbinic authorities on questions of law and practice in daily Jewish life.1 Rarely stud…
The Nazi Physicians as Leaders in Eugenics and “Euthanasia”
This article, in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Doctors’ Trial at Nuremberg, reflects on the Nazi eugenics and “euthanasia” programs and their relevance for today. The Nazi doctors used eugenic ideals to justify sterilizations, child and adult “euthanasia,” and, ultimately, genocide. Contemporary euthanasia has experienced a progression from voluntary to nonvoluntary and from passive to active killing. Modern eugenics has included b…
Reflections on the 70th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial
An editorial is presented which addresses the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial, and it mentions several other articles which appear in the same issue of the journal and discuss topics such as the Nuremberg Code and Nuremberg principles human rights laws and prosecutions of Nazi physicians for human experimentation-related murder and torture. Voluntary informed consent is assessed, along with euthanasia and eugenics during the Worl…
Forgotten” Chapters in the History of Transcervical Sterilization
Transcervical sterilization is a non-surgical method of permanent female sterilization that is widely used and critically discussed. A review of the historiography of the method reveals that instances of its coercive use are not included in the historical account. This study offers a reexamination of the work of Carl Clauberg and Hans-Joachim Lindemann, to more deeply contextualize within the framework of current usage the coercive use of transce…
Hospital Ethics Committees, Consultants, and Courts
Hospital ethics committees grew out of legal controversies regarding the refusal of lifesustaining treatment. We review the fragmented history of hospital ethics committees and argue that though they were born of concerns about legal liability, they do best when they stick to clinical ethics and leave legal questions to a hospital's attorney and the courts. We also underline that procedural mechanisms, including ethics committees and advance dire…
Beverly Chalmers, Birth, Sex, and Abuse
The voice of the witness has increasingly taken a central role in post-Holocaust historiography. Testimonies have recounted the survivor experience from the perspective of age, social class, nationality, geography, and religious practice. It was not until the 1990s, however, that the gendered experiences of women began to gain attention. Fortified by the women’s movement and feminist theory, writings by and about women have used gender-based anal…
Public Health in the Vilna Ghetto as a Form of Jewish Resistance
We describe the system of public health that evolved in the Vilna Ghetto as an illustrative example of Jewish innovation and achievement during the Holocaust. Furthermore, we argue that by cultivating a sophisticated system of public health, the ghetto inmates enacted a powerful form of Jewish resistance, directly thwarting the intention of the Nazis to eliminate the inhabitants by starvation, epidemic, and exposure. In doing so, we aim to highli…
Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine for Survivors of Torture and Refugee Trauma
Leslie Gilbert-Lurie with Rita Lurie, Bending Toward the Sun
A doctor once asked Elie Wiesel, “How does one treat survivors of the Holocaust?” He replied, “Listen to them, listen very carefully. They have more to teach you, than you do them.” My own experience confirms the wisdom of his advice. As a physician, psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, and director of the Project on Medicine and the Holocaust at the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, I have learned more from survivors of the Holocaust and their f…
Caring for Aging Holocaust Survivors and Subsequent Generations
Caring for Aging Holocaust Survivors and Subsequent Generations Michael A. Grodin, M. D. (bio) It is now more than 65 years since the end of the second World War and the liberation of Auschwitz. The Holocaust, the systematic state-sponsored genocide of six million Jews, was a watershed event in modern human history and has challenged pre-existing ideas of the social, cultural, and psychological analysis of human behavior (Marcus & Wineman, 1985).…
Struggling to meditate
As a result of the recent resurgence of violence in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights has an increased patient demographic: Tibetan refugee monks. Diagnosed by their amchis (traditional healers) as having a srog-rLung (life-wind) imbalance and presenting with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), they struggle with their contemplative meditation, which—as a central focus of their daily lives—norm…
Clinical Issues in Caring for Former Chattel Slaves
Oral Health Status of Refugee Torture Survivors Seeking Care in the United States
We assessed the oral health status of 216 refugee torture survivors seeking care at an urban torture treatment center in the United States. Results showed that patients' dental health ranged from poor to fair; 76% had untreated cavities, and approximately 90% required immediate or near-immediate dental care. Torture treatment centers, in addition to offering safe environments for educating and examining patients, are ideal settings to provide bas…
Physicians and torture
How is it possible? What are the personal, professional and political contexts that allow physicians to use their skills to torture and kill rather than heal? What are the psychological characteristics and the social, cultural and political factors that predispose physicians to participate in human rights abuses? What can be done to recognize at-risk situations and attempt to provide corrective or preventive strategies? This article examines case…
Characteristics and Utilization of Primary Care Services in a Torture Rehabilitation Center
The ethical challenge of stem cell research
Research in Developing Countries
Leonard H. Glantz, George J. Annas, Michael A. Grodin, Wendy K. Mariner, Research in Developing Countries: Taking "Benefit" Seriously, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 28, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1998), pp. 38-42
Human rights and maternal-fetal HIV transmission prevention trials in Africa
The human rights issues raised by the conduct of maternal-fetal human immunodeficiency virus transmission trials in Africa are not unique to either acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or Africa, but public discussion of these trials presents an opportunity for the United States and other wealthy nations to take the rights and welfare of impoverished populations seriously. The central issue at stake when developed countries perform research on subj…
The Japanese Analogue
Book reviewed in this article: Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare 1932–1945 and the American Cover-Up. By Sheldon H. Harris
Medicine and Human Rights
1996 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the commencement of the trial of Nazi physicians at Nuremberg, a trial that has been variously designated as the "Doctors' Trial" and the "Medical Case." In addition to documenting atrocities committed by physicians and scientists during WWII, the most significant contribution of the trial has come to be known as the "Nuremberg Code," a judicial codification of 10 prerequisites for the moral and legal use of…
Medicine and Human Rights A Proposal for International Action
An international medical tribunal should be established with power to\nimpose criminal sanctions against physicians who are guilty of crimes against\nhumanity
Religious advance directives
Because of the deep interpersonal significance of decisions made at the end of life, it is not surprising that religion has played an important role in patient and family decision making. Specific religious concerns about death and dying have led to religious advance directives. Advance directives offer a case study of models of interaction between religious communities and secular institutions. This paper examines why such directives have been c…
Medicine betrayed
[Treating the Troops]
Human rights and maternal-fetal HIV transmission prevention trials in Africa
The human rights issues raised by the conduct of maternal-fetal human immunodeficiency virus transmission trials in Africa are not unique to either acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or Africa, but public discussion of these trials presents an opportunity for the United States and other wealthy nations to take the rights and welfare of impoverished populations seriously. The central issue at stake when developed countries perform research on subj…
The Nazi Physicians as Leaders in Eugenics and “Euthanasia”
This article, in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Doctors’ Trial at Nuremberg, reflects on the Nazi eugenics and “euthanasia” programs and their relevance for today. The Nazi doctors used eugenic ideals to justify sterilizations, child and adult “euthanasia,” and, ultimately, genocide. Contemporary euthanasia has experienced a progression from voluntary to nonvoluntary and from passive to active killing. Modern eugenics has included b…
Medicine and Human Rights
1996 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the commencement of the trial of Nazi physicians at Nuremberg, a trial that has been variously designated as the "Doctors' Trial" and the "Medical Case." In addition to documenting atrocities committed by physicians and scientists during WWII, the most significant contribution of the trial has come to be known as the "Nuremberg Code," a judicial codification of 10 prerequisites for the moral and legal use of…
Rabbinic Responsa and Spiritual Resistance during the Holocaust
In this article, we examine in detail a set of little-known texts arising from the Holocaust: the decisions given by rabbis in response to cases where the Germans and their collaborators attempted to force Jews to decide who among them would live and who would die. The genre that these decisions fit into is known as rabbinic responsa: the written decisions of rabbinic authorities on questions of law and practice in daily Jewish life.1 Rarely stud…
Public Health in the Vilna Ghetto as a Form of Jewish Resistance
We describe the system of public health that evolved in the Vilna Ghetto as an illustrative example of Jewish innovation and achievement during the Holocaust. Furthermore, we argue that by cultivating a sophisticated system of public health, the ghetto inmates enacted a powerful form of Jewish resistance, directly thwarting the intention of the Nazis to eliminate the inhabitants by starvation, epidemic, and exposure. In doing so, we aim to highli…
Epistemological questions concerning death
This paper illustrates that it is meaningless to provide answers to the question: "is the patient dead?" outside of specified contexts. Unless it is clear who is asking the question, for what purpose, and how certain one must be, medical decisions concerning death will remain ambiguous and open for misinterpretations. The ambiguity of these medical decisions may lead to additional legal, social, psychological, and ethical conflicts. Our discussio…
Whose Patient Is This, Anyway
A twelve-year-old boy suffering from septic arthritis/osteomyelitis (an infection of the bone and joint) was brought to the emergency room of a Boston teaching hospital late one evening. Since the child was not directly referred by a physician or clinic, the parents were asked where the child received his routine medical care. They said that though they did not have or remember a specific provider, they previously received care for themselves and…
Jewish Medical Ethics
The article traces the sources of Jewish Law from Torah to contemporary authorities, and then explores the methodology of analysis that is followed in decision making. The primary obligation to seek preventive and curative measures for the protection of human life is noted and the mitzvah to maintain the body and soul in good health is explored. Basic principles of Jewish law are explained and related to contemporary decisions involving medical p…
Religion, Medicine and Public Health Policy
The Authors describe the background that led them to devise a course in religin and public health policy. Article includes a course description and outline, brief review of readings and materials, course requirements, and a short discussion of the first year's results
The Nurembeg Code and medical Research
Patient choice and fetal therapy
[Treating the Troops]
Surrogate motherhood and the best interests of the child
Medicine and Human Rights A Proposal for International Action
An international medical tribunal should be established with power to\nimpose criminal sanctions against physicians who are guilty of crimes against\nhumanity
Religious advance directives
Because of the deep interpersonal significance of decisions made at the end of life, it is not surprising that religion has played an important role in patient and family decision making. Specific religious concerns about death and dying have led to religious advance directives. Advance directives offer a case study of models of interaction between religious communities and secular institutions. This paper examines why such directives have been c…
Medicine betrayed
The Japanese Analogue
Book reviewed in this article: Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare 1932–1945 and the American Cover-Up. By Sheldon H. Harris
Medicine and Human Rights
1996 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the commencement of the trial of Nazi physicians at Nuremberg, a trial that has been variously designated as the "Doctors' Trial" and the "Medical Case." In addition to documenting atrocities committed by physicians and scientists during WWII, the most significant contribution of the trial has come to be known as the "Nuremberg Code," a judicial codification of 10 prerequisites for the moral and legal use of…
Research in Developing Countries
Leonard H. Glantz, George J. Annas, Michael A. Grodin, Wendy K. Mariner, Research in Developing Countries: Taking "Benefit" Seriously, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 28, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1998), pp. 38-42
Human rights and maternal-fetal HIV transmission prevention trials in Africa
The human rights issues raised by the conduct of maternal-fetal human immunodeficiency virus transmission trials in Africa are not unique to either acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or Africa, but public discussion of these trials presents an opportunity for the United States and other wealthy nations to take the rights and welfare of impoverished populations seriously. The central issue at stake when developed countries perform research on subj…
The ethical challenge of stem cell research
Characteristics and Utilization of Primary Care Services in a Torture Rehabilitation Center
Physicians and torture
How is it possible? What are the personal, professional and political contexts that allow physicians to use their skills to torture and kill rather than heal? What are the psychological characteristics and the social, cultural and political factors that predispose physicians to participate in human rights abuses? What can be done to recognize at-risk situations and attempt to provide corrective or preventive strategies? This article examines case…
Clinical Issues in Caring for Former Chattel Slaves
Oral Health Status of Refugee Torture Survivors Seeking Care in the United States
We assessed the oral health status of 216 refugee torture survivors seeking care at an urban torture treatment center in the United States. Results showed that patients' dental health ranged from poor to fair; 76% had untreated cavities, and approximately 90% required immediate or near-immediate dental care. Torture treatment centers, in addition to offering safe environments for educating and examining patients, are ideal settings to provide bas…
Struggling to meditate
As a result of the recent resurgence of violence in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights has an increased patient demographic: Tibetan refugee monks. Diagnosed by their amchis (traditional healers) as having a srog-rLung (life-wind) imbalance and presenting with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), they struggle with their contemplative meditation, which—as a central focus of their daily lives—norm…
Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine for Survivors of Torture and Refugee Trauma
Leslie Gilbert-Lurie with Rita Lurie, Bending Toward the Sun
A doctor once asked Elie Wiesel, “How does one treat survivors of the Holocaust?” He replied, “Listen to them, listen very carefully. They have more to teach you, than you do them.” My own experience confirms the wisdom of his advice. As a physician, psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, and director of the Project on Medicine and the Holocaust at the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, I have learned more from survivors of the Holocaust and their f…
Caring for Aging Holocaust Survivors and Subsequent Generations
Caring for Aging Holocaust Survivors and Subsequent Generations Michael A. Grodin, M. D. (bio) It is now more than 65 years since the end of the second World War and the liberation of Auschwitz. The Holocaust, the systematic state-sponsored genocide of six million Jews, was a watershed event in modern human history and has challenged pre-existing ideas of the social, cultural, and psychological analysis of human behavior (Marcus & Wineman, 1985).…
Beverly Chalmers, Birth, Sex, and Abuse
The voice of the witness has increasingly taken a central role in post-Holocaust historiography. Testimonies have recounted the survivor experience from the perspective of age, social class, nationality, geography, and religious practice. It was not until the 1990s, however, that the gendered experiences of women began to gain attention. Fortified by the women’s movement and feminist theory, writings by and about women have used gender-based anal…
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