Sabine Hildebrandt, MD

Sabine Hildebrandt, MD, FAAA is a researcher and associate professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. She teaches anatomy and history and ethics of anatomy at Harvard Medical School and Harvard College. Among other publications on anatomy, medicine, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust, her 2016 book The Anatomy of Murder: Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich is the first systematic study of anatomy in Nazi Germany. As co-chair of The Lancet Commission on Medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust: Historical Evidence, Implications for Today, Teaching for Tomorrow, she co-authored this commission’s report published on Nov 8, 2023. As member of various institutional committees, Sabine is involved in formulating recommendations on how to ethically approach work with human remains in historical collections. She serves as associate editor of Anatomical Sciences Education for the areas of history and ethics.