He was a contributor and consultant for the original 2004 installation of the U.S.
Lombardo currently serves as a Senior Advisor to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, in Washington, D.C.
The exhibition illustrates how Nazi leadership enlisted people in professions traditionally charged with healing and the public good to legitimize persecution, murder, and ultimately genocide.įor more information about the entire exhibit please seeĭeadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race. This keynote address is part of the exhibition Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race which runs from February 3rd - April 8. Professor Lombardo will discuss details of the Buck case, and how it became one of the symbolic high points for the eugenic movement in the United States. That case and the laws that it validated preceded the 1934 Nazi law for sterilizing the 'hereditarily diseased" under which more than 400,000 operations occurred in Nazi Germany. Bell, the 1927 United States Supreme Court case that endorsed state laws mandating the eugenic sterilization of "feebleminded" and "socially inadequate" people in state institutions. Lombardo, Professor and Bobby Lee Cook Chair of Law at Georgia State University in Atlanta.īuck v.
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