Nazi medicine and the Nuremberg Trials : from medical war crimes to informed consent

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 center 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. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-8 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 The Rabbits Protest....Pages 11-20 Allied Experiments....Pages 21-26 Criminal Research....Pages 27-43 Exploitation....Pages 44-64 Aviation Atrocities....Pages 65-89 Front Matter....Pages 91-91 From the International Tribunal to Zonal Trials....Pages 93-125 Pseudo-science and Psychopaths....Pages 126-132 The Nuremberg Vortex....Pages 133-145 Internationalism and Interrogations....Pages 146-170 Science in Behemoth: The Human Experiments....Pages 171-210 The Medical Delegation....Pages 211-224 A Eugenics Trial?....Pages 225-249 Euthanasia....Pages 250-256 Experiments and Ethics....Pages 257-269 Formulating the Code....Pages 270-293 Front Matter....Pages 295-295 Cold War Medicine....Pages 297-318 A Fragile Legacy....Pages 319-343 Back Matter....Pages 344-482 This book offers a radically new and definitive reappraisal of Allied responses to Nazi human experiments and the origins of informed consent. It tells the story of Nazi and Allied human experiments, and how war crimes investigators were diverted from the mission to uncover weapons of mass destruction to respond instead to the wartime German experiments. From outlining policies on war crimes and trials in relation to Nazi medical atrocities, the books goes on to analyse the Medical Trial, considering the prosecution, defense, judges and observers to present a rounded picture of the court and its context. With the central premiss that the trial was in fact a 'genocide trial', the author explores the far-reaching effects of its aftermath in terms of Cold War politics, compensation and research ethics "This book offers a new and definitive reappraisal of Allied responses to Nazi human experiments and the origins of informed consent. It tells the story of Nazi and Allied human experiments, and how war crimes investigators were diverted from the mission to uncover weapons of mass destruction to respond instead to the wartime German experiments. From outlining policies on war crimes and trials in relation to Nazi medical atrocities, the book goes on to analyse the Medical Trial, considering the prosecution, defence, judges and observers to present a rounded picture of the court and its context. With the central premiss that the trial was in fact a 'genocide trial', the author explores the far-reaching effects of its aftermath in terms of Cold War politics, compensation and research ethics."--Jacket 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

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.

Paul Julian Weindling offers a radically new and definitive reappraisal of Allied responses to Nazi human experiments and the origins of informed consent. The text places the victims and Allied medical intelligence officers at centre stage, while providing a reconstruction of policies on war crimes