Boston University School of Public Health

Michael Alan Grodin, M.D., is Professor of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights in the Department of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights at the Boston University School of Public Health, where he has received 20 teaching awards including the Norman A. Scotch Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Grodin is Professor of Socio-Medical Sciences and Community Medicine and Psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine.  In addition, Dr. Grodin is a Professor of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences and Director of the Project on Medicine and the Holocaust at the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies.  He completed his B.S. degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his M.D. degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, his postdoctoral and fellowship training at UCLA and Harvard, and he has been on the faculty of Boston University for the past 30 years.

Dr. Grodin is the Medical Ethicist at Boston Medical Center and for thirteen years served as the Human Studies Chairman for the Department of Health and Hospitals of the City of Boston. He is a fellow of the Hastings Center, served on the board of directors of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research, the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for the Philosophy and History of Science. He was a member of the National Committee on Bioethics of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Committee on Ethics of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.  Professor Grodin served on the Ethics Committee of the Massachusetts Center for Organ Transplantation, was a consultant to the National Human Subjects Protection Review Panel of the National Institutes of Health AIDS Program Advisory Committee, and is a consultant on Ethics and Research with Human Subjects for the International Organizations of Medical Sciences and the World Health Organization. He is a member of the Ethics Review Board of Physicians for Human Rights.  Dr. Grodin is the Co-Founder of Global Lawyers and Physicians: Working Together for Human Rights, Co-Director of the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights: Caring for Survivors of Torture and he has received a special citation from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in recognition of his "profound contributions - through original and creative research - to the cause of Holocaust education and remembrance." The Refugee Center which he Co-Directs received the 2002 Outstanding Achievement Award from the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project for "sensitivity and dedication in caring for the health and human rights of refugees and survivors of torture." He is a Member of the Global Implementation Project of the Istanbul Protocol Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and an Advisor to UNESCO.  Dr. Grodin was the 2000 Julius Silberger Scholar and is an elected member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the American Psychoanalytic Association.  Twice named one of America's Top Physicians, he has received 4 national Humanism in Medicine and Humanitarian Awards for "integrity, clinical excellence and compassion", "outstanding humanism in medicine and integrity as a faulty member" and "compassion, empathy, respect and cultural sensitivity in the delivery of care to patients and their families."

Dr. Grodin has delivered over 300 invited national and international addresses, written more than 200 scholarly papers, and edited or co-edited 5 books:  The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code:  Human Rights in Human Experimentation and  Children as Research Subjects:  Science, Ethics and Law of the Bioethics Series of Oxford University Press, a book in the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science Series of Kluwer Academic Press entitled Meta-Medical Ethics:  The Philosophical Foundations of Bioethics, and two books published by Routledge one Health and Human Rights: A Reader selected as 2^nd  of the top 10 humanitarian books of 1999 and another entitled Perspectives on Health and Human Rights.   Professor Grodin is presently working on two books, Medical Ethics in the Shadow of the Holocaust  and After the Shoah: Rebuilding the Lives of Holocaust Survivors. Dr. Grodin's primary areas of interest include: the relationship of health and human rights, medicine and the holocaust, bioethics and the philosophy of psychiatry and psychoanalysis.

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Books

The Nazi Doctors and The Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation. George J. Annas and Michael A. Grodin, Editors. Oxford University Press, NY, 1992., 371 pgs., ISBN 0-19-507042-9. Reprinted as paperback, 1995, ISBN 0-19-510106-5 (pbk.). (Translated into Turkish, Adnan Menderes Universitesi, 1998)

Children as Research Subjects: Science, Ethics and Law. Michael A. Grodin and Leonard H. Glantz, Editors. Oxford University Press, NY, 1994, 258 pgs., ISBN 0-19-507103-4.

Meta Medical Ethics: The Philosophical Foundations of Bioethics. Michael A. Grodin, Editor. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Kluwer Academic Publishers, MA, 1995, 205 pgs., ISBN 0-7923-3344-6. Reprinted in paperback, 2001, ISBN 1-4020-0252-1 (pbk.) (Translated into Japanese, Ebisu Kosho Shuppan Ltd. Publishers, Tokyo, Japan, 1998)

Health and Human Rights: A Reader. Jonathan Mann, Sofia Gruskin, Michael A. Grodin and George J. Annas, Editors, Routledge, NY, 1999, 506 pgs, ISBN 0-415-92101-5. Reprinted as paperback, 1999, ISBN 0-415-92102-3(pbk). Named 2^nd of top 10 humanitarian books of 1999 by Humanitarian Times.

Perspectives on Health and Human Rights. Sofia Gruskin, Michael A. Grodin, Stephen Marks and George J. Annas, Editors, Routledge, NY, 2005, 640 pgs., ISBN 0-415-94806-1. Reprinted as paperback 2005, ISBN 0-415-94807-X (pbk).

The "Last" Nazi Doctor: The Trial of Dr. Joseph Mengele . Michael A. Grodin, (In preparation)

After the Shoah: Rebuilding the Postwar Lives of Holocaust Survivors Michael A. Grodin Co-Editor (in preparation).

Medical Ethics in the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Nazi Doctors, Racial Hygiene Murder and Genocide. Michael A. Grodin. (in preparation)


Selected Chapters (of 22)

Grodin M: Historical origins of the Nuremberg Code. In Medicine, Ethics and the Third Reich: Historical and Contemporary Issues. Michalczyk J (ed). Sheed and Ward, 1994, pp. 169-194.

Annas G, Grodin M: Medical Ethics and Human Rights: Legacies of Nuremberg. In Medicine and Conscience. Ohne F, Kolb S, Seithe H (eds). Campus Publishers, Berlin, 1998. Reprinted in War Crimes and War Crime Tribunals: Past, Present, and Future.


Annas G, Grodin M: Medizinische Ethik Und Menschenrechte: Das Vermachtnnis von Nurenberg. In Medizin Und Gewissen. Kolb S (ed). Mabuse-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1998. pp. 244-259.

Sirkin S, Iacopino V, Grodin M, Danieli Y: The Role of Health Professionals in Protecting and Promoting Human Rights: A Paradigm for Professional Responsibility. In The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: The Victims' Perspective Fifty Years Later. Danieli Y, Dias C, Stamatopoulou E (eds). Baywood Publishing for the United Nations, 1998. pp. 357-369.

Grodin M, Annas G: The Nuremberg Code. In The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics. Emmanuel E, Grady C, Lie R, Miller F, Wendler D (eds). Oxford University Press 2004, pp .

Rourke E, Crosby S, Grodin M: Refugee Women's Health. In Our Bodies, Our Selves. Women's Health Book Collective. 2004, pp.

Grodin M: The Worth of Human Life: The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code. In PRIM&R Through theYears:1974-2004, Thirty Years of Human Research Protections 2006. pp. 189-192.

Piwowarczyk L, Crosby S, Kerr Denali, Grodin M: Torture and Public Health. In Encyclopedia of Public Health. Heggenhougen K (ed). Elsevier, 2007, pp.

Annas G, Grodin M: The Nuremberg Code. In The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics. Emmanuel E, Grady C, Lie R, Miller F, Wendler D (eds). Oxford University Press 2008, pp 136-140 .

Grodin M: "Hitler Should Have Finished the Job" : Counter Transference, Anti Semitism, Abandonment and Termination. In Casebook on Ethically Challenging Work Settings in Mental Health and the Behavioral Sciences. Johnson WB, Koocher G (eds) Oxford University Press 2009.

Grodin M: The Contemporary Medical and Psychological Needs of Aging Holocaust Survivors and Their Children. In After the Shoah: Rebuilding Shattered Lives of Survivors of the Holocaust. Grodin M (eds) 2009


Select Articles (of 86)

Sassower R, Grodin M: Epistemological Questions on Death, Death Studies 10:341-353, 1986.

Sassower R, Grodin M: Collaborations between physicians and humanists - beyond the metaphors. Journal of Medical Humanities and Bioethics 7(2):135-138, 1986. Reprinted 8(1): 52-55, 1987.

Sassower R, Grodin M: Scientific uncertainty and medical responsibility. Theoretical Medicine 8:221-234,1987.

Grodin M, Schoenberg E: Jewish medical ethics: moral dilemmas and problematic decision-making in Jewish law. Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy 2(1): 45-56, 1988.

Grodin M, Merrigan D, Burton L, Tobin H: Religion, Medicine and Public Health Policy: Explorations in Teaching. Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy 3(1): 73-80, 1990.

Annas G, Grodin M: The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Relevance for Modern Medical Research (Conference Report). Medicine and War: International Medical Concerns on War and other Social Violence 6(2): 120-124, 1990.

Grodin M: The Nuremberg Code and Medical Research. Hastings Center Report 20(3): 4, 1990.

Grodin M, Annas G, Glantz L: Medicine and Human Rights: A Proposal for International Action. Hastings Center Report 23(4): 8-12, 1993.

Grodin M: Halakhic Dilemmas in Modern Medicine. Journal of Clinical Ethics 6(3): 218-221, l995.
Annas G, Grodin M: Medicine and Human Rights: Reflections on the 50^th Anniversary of the Doctors' Trial. Health and Human Rights 2(1):7-21, 1996.

Grodin M, Annas G: Legacies of Nuremberg: Medical Ethics and Human Rights. Journal of the American Medical Association 276(20):1682-1683, 1996.

Gruskin S, Mann J, Annas G, Grodin M, et al: Health and Human Rights: A Call to Action on the 50^th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. JAMA 280(5):462-464, 1998.

Moreno A, Grodin M: The Not So Silent Marks of Torture. Journal of the American Medical Association 284(5): 538, 2000.

Piwowarczyk L, Moreno A, Grodin M: Health Care of Torture Survivors. Journal of the American Medical Association 284(5): 539-541, 2000.

Moreno A, Piwowarczyk L, Grodin M: Human Rights Violations and Refugee Health. Journal of the American Medical Association. 285(9): 1215, 2001.

Moreno A, Grodin M: Torture and Its Neurological Sequelae. Spinal Cord 40(5):213-223, 2002.

LeGraw J, Grodin M: Health Professionals and Lethal Injection Execution in the United States. Human Rights Quarterly 24(2):382-423, 2002.

Grodin M, Merrigan D, Burton L, Tobin H: Religion, Medicine and Public Health Policy: Explorations in Teaching. Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy 3(1): 73-80, 1990.

Grodin M: Religious Advance Directives: The Convergence of Law, Religion, Medicine and Public Policy. American Journal of Public Health 83(6): 899-903, 1993.

Grodin M: Religious Exemptions: Brain Death and Jewish Law. Journal of Church and State. 36(2): 401-416,1994.

Grodin M: Halakhic Dilemmas in Modern Medicine. Journal of Clinical Ethics 6(3): 218-221, l995. Abstracted in The Philosopher's Index, Philosophy Documentation Center, Bowling Green State University.

Grodin M: Religious Attitudes Towards Genetics: Opening A Larger Debate. Journal of Clinical Ethics 6(3): 246 247, l995. Abstracted in The Philosopher's Index, Philosophy Documentation Center, Bowling Green State University.

Laurie G, Grodin M: Stigmatization and Genomic Research: The "Health Poor "and the "Health Rich". BMJ 1999.

Moreno A, Piwowarczyk L, Lamorte W, Grodin M: Characteristics and Utilization of Primary Care Services in a Torture Rehabilitation Center. Journal of Refugee Health. 2005.

Norredam M, Crosby S, Piwowarczyk L, Grodin M: Urological Complications to Sexual Trauma Among Male Survivors of Torture: A Case Series. Urology. 2004.

Grodin M, Annas G.: Mad, Bad or Evil: How Healers Become Killers from Nazi Germany to Abu Ghraib. International Committee of the Red Cross Review, 2008.

Selected Reviews (of 37)

Grodin M: Book Review, Euthanasia: The Moral Issue. Baird R and Rosenbaum S (eds). Quarterly Review of Biology 65(3): 344-345, 1990.

Grodin M: Book Review, Medicine Betrayed: The Participation of Doctors in Human Rights Abuses. Report of a Working Party of the British Medical Association. Social Science and Medicine 37(2): 277-279, 1993.

Grodin M: The Japanese Analogue. Book Review, Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare 1932- 1945 and the American Cover-Up. Sheldon S. Hastings Center Report 26(5): 37-38, 1996. Reprinted in HCR Sept-Oct 1996.

Laurie G, Grodin M: Book Review, Against Relativism: Cultural Diversity and the Search for Ethical Universals in Medicine. Macklin R. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 43(4): 627-629, 2000.

Nathanson J, Grodin M: Book Review, Nursing in Nazi Germany. McFarland-Icke B. Lancet 356:1859, 2000.

Grodin M, Annas G: Book Review, Military Medical Ethics. Beam T and Sparacino L Eds. New England Journal of Medicine, 352(3): 312-314, 2005.


Selected Abstracts (of 27)

Moreno A, Akram S, Geltman P, Grodin M, Keane T, Piwowarczyk L: The Boston Center for Health and Human Rights. Society for General Internal Medicine, Boston, MA 2000. Journal of General Internal Medicine 15(Suppl. 1): 229, 2000.

Moreno A, Grodin M: Caring for Refugees and Survivors of Torture. Society for General Internal Medicine, Boston, MA 2000. Journal of General Internal Medicine 15(Suppl. 1): 137, 2000.

Moreno A, Grodin M: Ethics and Law: When Refugees are Perpetrators and Victims. Society for General Internal Medicine, Boston, MA 2000. Journal of General Internal Medicine 15(Suppl. 1): 191, 2000.

Moreno A, Grodin M: Ethics and Law: Informed Consent During the Medical Care of Asylum Applicants. Society of General Internal Medicine, Boston, MA 2000. Journal of General Internal Medicine 15(Suppl. 1): 192, 2000.

Moreno A, Grodin M: Caring for Refugees and Survivors of Torture. American Public Health Association. Boston, MA 2000. Abstract #1001 p. 32.

Piwowarczyk L, Grodin M, et al: The Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights: Serving Vulnerable Populations. American Public Health Association. Boston, MA 2000. Abstract #5099 p. 493.

Moreno A, Grodin M: Ethical Concerns When Conducting Research in Refugees and Survivors of Torture. American Public Health Association. Boston, MA 2000. Abstract 5246 p. 502.

Piwowarczyk L, Keane T, Grodin M: Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights: Project Welcome-Serving Survivors of Torture. Reaching Trauma Survivors Through Community-Based Programs. The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. New Orleans, LA 2001, pg. 37.

Crosby C, Piwowarczyk L, Carroll J, Grodin M: Prevalence of Survivors of Torture and War Trauma at an Urban Hospital. North American Primary Care Research Group. New Orleans, LA 2002.

Piwowarczyk L, Grodin M, Restrepo R, Keane T: Caring for Refugees and Survivors of Torture. American Psychiatric Association, Philadelphia, PA 2002. Course 87, p. 45.

Simon B, Apfel R, Grodin M: Psychoanalytically Informed Evaluation and Treatment of Survivors or Torture and Refugee Trauma. American Psychoanalytic Association 92^nd Annual Meeting. Boston, MA 2003.

Crosby S, Norredam M, Piwowarczyk L, Grodin M: Prevalence of Survivors of Torture Among Foreign-Born Patients at an Urban Ambulatory Care Practice. Society for General Internal Medicine. Chicago, Ill 2004.

Select Reports, Briefs, and  Editorials (of 50)

Brief of Medical Ethics Scholars as Amicus Curiae in Support of Appellants, Court of Appeal for the First District State of California, "Physician Participation in Executions is Unethical" 1997.

Brief of Physicians for Human Rights, Global Lawyers and Physicians, et al as Amicus Curiae in Support of Reversal, Supreme Court of the United States, "The Electric Chair as Cruel and Unusual Punishment" 1999.

Nathanson J, Grodin M: Eugenic Sterilization and the Nazi Analogy, Annals of Internal Medicine 2000.

Crosby S, Grodin M: Report of Torture Must Be Probed. Boston Globe, December 6, 2004, pg A14.