Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials From Medical War Crimes to Informed Consent

by Weindling, Paul Julian

• ISBN13: 9780230507005
• ISBN10: 023050700X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-12
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book offers a radically new and definitive reappraisal of Allied responses to Nazi human experiments and the origins of informed consent. It places the victims and Allied Medical Intelligence officers at centre stage, while providing a full reconstruction of policies on war crimes and trials related to Nazi medical atrocities and genocide. The analysis of the Medical Trial considers the prosecution, defense, judges and observers to present a rounded picture of the court and its context, and the aftermath in terms of Cold War politics, compensation and research ethics.

Author Biography

PAUL JULIAN WEINDLING is Wellcome Trust Research Professor in the History of Medicine at the Department of History, Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the author of Health, Race and German Politics between National Unification and Nazism (Cambridge University Press) and Epidemics and Genocide in Eastern Europe (Oxford University Press). He is a member of the Max Planck Presidential Commission on the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft under National Socialism.

Table of Contents

Figures	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Abbreviations and Acronyms	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Exhuming Nazi Medicine	p. 9
The Rabbits Protest	p. 11
Allied Experiments	p. 21
Criminal Research	p. 27
Exploitation	p. 44
Aviation Atrocities	p. 65
Medicine on Trial	p. 91
From the International Tribunal to Zonal Trials	p. 93
Pseudo-science and Psychopaths	p. 126
The Nuremberg Vortex	p. 133
Internationalism and Interrogations	p. 146
Science in Behemoth: The Human Experiments	p. 171
The Medical Delegation	p. 211
A Eugenics Trial?	p. 225
Euthanasia	p. 250
Experiments and Ethics	p. 257
Formulating the Code	p. 270
Aftermath	p. 295
Cold War Medicine	p. 297
A Fragile Legacy	p. 319
Tables	p. 344
Archives, Interviews, Bibliography	p. 359
Notes	p. 367
Index	p. 461
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.