The Nuremberg Medical Trial: The Holocaust and the Origin of the Nuremberg Medical Code (Studies in Modern European History, V. 53.)

Table of Contents......Page 8 Introduction: Approaches to Representing the Subject......Page 10 The Nuremberg Medical Trial: A Symbol of Broken Trust......Page 18 The Hippocratic Tradition and Its Modern Challenges......Page 20 Human Experimentation Before the Outbreak of Global War......Page 24 Collective Versus Individual Health After World War I: The Primacy of Ideology......Page 27 German Medicine After the Outbreak of World War II......Page 33 German Medical Experiments During World War II......Page 35 Rescue of Fliers and Sailors......Page 36 Treatment of War Injuries......Page 38 Reconstructive Surgery......Page 40 Controlling Epidemics......Page 41 Biochemical Warfare......Page 42 Eugenic Experiments......Page 43 The Jewish Skeleton Collection......Page 46 Medical Results of the Experiments......Page 47 The Precedent: The Major Trial Before the International Military Tribunal......Page 52 Preparing the Trial......Page 57 The Defendants......Page 59 Count One: Crimes Against Peace—Conspiracy......Page 68 Count Two: War Crimes......Page 71 Count Three: Crimes Against Humanity......Page 84 Count Four: Membership in Criminal Organizations......Page 90 Verdicts and Sentences......Page 94 The Trial in Review: How Fair, How Just, How Competent?......Page 95 The Nuremberg Code......Page 112 Theoretical Background for an Overdue Debate......Page 116 Medical Ethics: Hippocrates and National Socialism......Page 129 Use and Abuse of Experimental Data......Page 163 Epilogue......Page 176 Illustrations......Page 180 Notes......Page 194 Bibliography......Page 206 B......Page 214 G......Page 215 L......Page 216 R......Page 217 W......Page 218 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. "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.