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The Nuremberg Medical Trial : the Holocaust and the origin of the Nuremberg medical code / Horst H. Freyhofer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freyhofer, Horst H., 1938-
- Series:
- Studies in modern European history ; v. 53.
- Studies in modern European history, 0893-6897 ; vol. 53
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nuremberg Medical Trial, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1947.
- War crime trials--Germany.
- War crime trials.
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- History.
- Human experimentation in medicine--Law and legislation--Criminal provisions.
- Human experimentation in medicine--Law and legislation.
- Germany.
- Human experimentation in medicine--Europe--History.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : P. Lang, [2004]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Road to Nuremberg 9
- The Nuremberg Medical Trial: A Symbol of Broken Trust 9
- The Hippocratic Tradition and Its Modern Challenges 11
- Human Experimentation Before the Outbreak of Global War 15
- Collective Versus Individual Health After World War I: The Primacy of Ideology 18
- German Medicine After the Outbreak of World War II 24
- German Medical Experiments During World War II 26
- Rescue of Fliers and Sailors 27
- Treatment of War Injuries 29
- Reconstructive Surgery 31
- Controlling Epidemics 32
- Biochemical Warfare 33
- Eugenic Experiments 34
- The Jewish Skeleton Collection 37
- Medical Results of the Experiments 38
- Chapter 2 The Trial
- A Legal Analysis 43
- The Precedent: The Major Trial Before the International Military Tribunal 43
- The Medical Trial 48
- Preparing the Trial 48
- The Defendants 50
- Count 1 Crimes Against Peace
- Conspiracy 59
- Count 2 War Crimes 62
- Count 3 Crimes Against Humanity 75
- Count 4 Membership in Criminal Organizations 81
- Verdicts and Sentences 85
- The Trial in Review: How Fair, How Just, How Competent? 86
- The Nuremberg Code 103
- Chapter 3 The Trial
- An Ethical Analysis 107
- Theoretical Background for an Overdue Debate 107
- Medical Ethics: Hippocrates and National Socialism 120
- Use and Abuse of Experimental Data 154.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-204) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Bernard W. Freeman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0820467979
- OCLC:
- 51878395
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