Ackerman Symposium on Medicine and Culture - Genetic Determinism Then and Now: Confronting the Legacy of Eugenics.

Date: 

Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Carl W. Walter Amphitheater, MEC, Harvard Medical School, 260 Longwood Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02115

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Symposium

The 2011 Ackerman Symposium, featuring four leading historians of eugenics, was held in conjunction with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s traveling exhibition, “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race.” The exhibition and symposium provoked reflection on the broad history of genetic screening and intervention, from the early twentieth-century eugenics movement to present-day dreams of eliminating inherited disabilities through genetic manipulation.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011
4:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Harvard Medical School
Carl W. Walter Amphitheater, MEC
260 Longwood Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115

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