CU bioethics professor explores ‘Deadly Medicine’

. Matt Wynia, then head of the American Medical Association’s ethics institute, received an unexpected invite from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC in the early 2000s. “The museum was putting together an exhibit called “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race,” says Wynia, 56, director of CU Anschutz Medical Campus’ Center for Bioethics and Humanities since 2015. “Deadly Medicine” exposed the complicity of physicians in Nazi Germany’s vision of a genetically superior race. Technically sterile, the search was cruel and incendiary. It led to the murder of millions of Jewish, ethnic and political enemies of the state. When Wynia was first introduced to the exhibit-in-process, which was pieced together on poster boards, curators had no interest in his aesthetic appraisal. “We discussed how American […]