num_pages: 400
description: This book traces the history of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial of 1946-47, through the eyes of the Austrian émigré psychiatrist Leo Alexander, whose investigations helped the US prosecution. Schmidt provides a detailed insight into the origins of human rights in medical science and into the changing role of international law, ethics and politics.
language: English
title: Justice at Nuremberg: Leo Alexander and the Nazi Doctors' Trial
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan