HSLS Update

Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race

A poignant exhibit, titled Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race, is on display through March 18, 2007 at the Andy Warhol Museum, located on the North Shore of Pittsburgh.  This exhibit, on loan from the United States Holocaust Museum, examines Nazi eugenics and medicine, and includes over 50 artifacts, 200 photographs, and survivor testimony.  

In December, the Holocaust Museum and the C. F. Reynolds Medical History Society co-sponsored a lecture relating to the exhibit, presented by Curator Dr. Susan Bachrach. 

For information regarding the Deadly Medicine exhibit, visit: <www.warhol.org/whats_on/exhibitions.html>. 

An online exhibit, prepared by the Holocaust Museum is available at: <www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/deadlymedicine/>.

Below is a sample of books on eugenics in the Falk Library History of Medicine collection:

Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene
by: Götz Aly, Peter Chroust, and Christian Pross
Call number: R853.H8 A477 1994

Eugenics: Hereditarian Attitudes in American Thought
by: Mark H. Haller
Call number: HQ753 H185 1963

From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany
by: Richard Weikart
Call number: HQ755.5.G3 W435 2004

The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism
by: Stefan Kühl
Call number: HQ753 K43 1994

The Surgical Solution: A History of Involuntary Sterilization in the United States
by: Philip R. Reilly
Call number: HQ755.5U6 R362 1991

--Jonathon Erlen and Melissa Ratajeski