The Nuremberg Medical Trial
Subtitle: the Holocaust and the origin of the Nuremberg medical code
By: Horst H. Freyhofer.
Series: Studies in modern European history,; vol. 53; Studies in modern European history ;; v. 53.
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Nuremberg Medical Trial, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1947; War crime trials -- Germany; Human experimentation in medicine -- Law and legislation -- Criminal provisions; Human experimentation in medicine -- Europe -- History
Description: "Following World War II, the American Military Tribunal indicted twenty-three Nazi doctors and administrators for performing agonizing and often fatal experiments on helpless concentration camp inmates. Using primarily court records, this book attempts to answer the following salient questions : What sort of medical experiments did the Nazi doctors perform? Who were their victims, and what was their fate? What, if any, were the medical results? What legal charges were brought against the doctors, and what was their defense? Who were the witnesses? Did the defendants try to reconcile their brutal acts with the Hippocratic Code never to do harm, or were they devoid of any medical ethics? Did they constitute dishonorable exceptions to a principled German medical profession, or were they symptomatic of a more widespread disregard for traditional medical ethics? In trying to answer these questions, Horst H. Freyhofer gives the reader the opportunity to follow the exchange between prosecutors and defendants as well as the final reasoning of the court."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-204) and index.