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children in Warsaw had taught him that “loneliness, isolation, loss of parents and all the varioustraumatic shocks to which children had been exposed during the war and Nazi occupation” couldlead to traumatic neurosis, anxiety, hysteria, and acute psychoneurotic symptoms. Regarding thepotential rehabilitation of such child survivors, Bychowski attached great value to re-education,which he understood as a healing process where the children would have the opportunity toregain a sense of being human in a liberated Europe. This paper will discuss the writings ofmedical doctors published in the American OSE Review, 1944-1945 regarding the physical andmental health of child survivors, and their proposals for rehabilitations of these children. It willnext examine the health problems among Jewish child survivors as reported in the early postwarperiod in Poland by doctors, guardians, educators, and by children themselves.The Development of Informed Consent Before and in the Aftermath of theShoahRobindra Paul, Consulting Psychiatry, San Diego, USA (robindra3@yahoo.com)To provide informed consent a patient must have the capacity to make a decision. In the UnitedStates, the process of informed consent involves healthcare providers providing patients withmaterial information such that the patient can weigh the benefits, risks, and alternatives totreatment including no treatment at all. The process of informed consent, where it does exist,varies internationally. This presentation will initially focus on the development of informedconsent from the Greek philosophy to American landmark case of Schloendorff v. Society of NewYork Hospital, 211 N.Y. 125, 105 N.E. 92 (1914). There will then be a presentation on thedeparture of from the principles of informed consent during the Shoah and the lessons learned inthe aftermath of the Shoah. Finally, there will be a presentation about the process of informedconsent in selected countries.From NS-Euthanasia to Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: A PsychoanalyticApproach towards Ideas of Human PerfectionAngela Mauss-Hanke, Analytische Kinder-und Jugendlichentherapeutin, Germany(amh@mauss-hanke.de)Based on Darwin’s social theory, Francis Galton’s eugenics and Binding/Hoche’s ideas on “theelimination of non-liveable life” (1920), German doctors helped to develop one of the mainpillars of the national socialist ideology: “race hygiene”. Its goal was to heal the “nation’s body”(“Volkskörper”) by freeing it from all weaknesses and evil influences. In our western “cultures”today we are facing a general tendency towards physical perfection – and at the same timetowards physical excesses of all sorts. We “eat as much as we can” and we spend millions onliposuctions. Thanks to preimplantation genetic diagnosis handicapped children disappear moreand more – from life and from our minds. The paper tries to shed light on the ideal of human421