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

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

Paul Julian Weindling

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, c2004

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-460) and index

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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.

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Abbreviations Acknowledgements List of lIlustrations Introduction PART ONE: EXHUMING NAZI MEDICINE The Rabbits Protest Allied Experiments Criminal Research Exploitation Aviation Atrocities PART TWO: MEDICINE ON TRIAL From the International to Zonal Trials Pseudo-science and Psychopaths The Nuremberg Vortex Internationalism and Interrogations Science in Behemoth: The Human Experiments The Medical Delegation A Eugenics Trial? Euthanasia Experiments and Ethics Formulating the Code PART THREE: AFTERMATH Cold War Medicine A Fragile Legacy Tables Bibliography, Archives, Interviews Index

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