Lectures to the Laity; Part 5 : Science Under Dictatorship
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This is the "one hundredth anniversary discourse of the New York Academy of Medicine." It is part of the fourteenth series of Lectures to the Laity. This lecture is titled "Science Under Dictatorship" and was delivered by Dr. Leo Alexander, the director of the Neurobiologic Unit Division of Psychiatric Research of the Boston State Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Harold Brown Keyes of the New York Academy of Medicine introduces the presiding chairman of the evening, the Honorable Geoffrey Parsons, chief editorial writer of the New York Herald Tribune. Dr. Alexander's address focuses on Nazi medical experimentation in concentration camps, euthanasia, and mass killings under the Nazis. "A series of lectures by outstanding authorities sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine. The lectures are given on a wide variety of subjects and meant to acquaint the public with medical progress and to enable it to understand the methods by which such progress in medicine and in science is effected and achieved. The lectures are given in the Academy's hall to a full audience and are published by the Columbia University Press both here and in England."--1948 Peabody Digest.
