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The Nuremberg Medical Trial

The Holocaust and the Origin of the Nuremberg Medical Code

by Horst Heinz Freyhofer (Author)
©2005 Monographs VIII, 210 Pages

Summary

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 exchanges between prosecutors and defendants as well as the final reasoning of the court.

Details

Pages
VIII, 210
Publication Year
2005
ISBN (PDF)
9781453915172
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820467979
DOI
10.3726/978-1-4539-1517-2
Language
English
Publication date
2004 (April)
Keywords
Nürnberg Mengele shoa jews nurnberg Holocaust
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2004, 2005. VIII, 209 pp., 45 ill.

Biographical notes

Horst Heinz Freyhofer (Author)

The Author: Horst H. Freyhofer has studied modern intellectual history and history of science at Universität Göttingen and UCLA, where he received his doctorate. He has been Associate Professor at Florida Institute of Technology and Visiting Professor at Middlebury College, Vermont, and is currently Associate Professor at Plymouth State University, New Hampshire. His writings have been published in various professional journals, and he is the author of The Vitalism of Hans Driesch (Peter Lang, 1982), a study of the rise and fall of a scientific theory in the twentieth century.

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