TY  - BOOK
AU  - Horst Heinz Freyhofer
PY  - 2004
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453915172
TI  - The Nuremberg Medical Trial
T2  - The Holocaust and the Origin of the Nuremberg Medical Code
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-1517-2
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1054410
N2  - 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.
KW  - Nürnberg, Mengele, shoa, jews, nurnberg, Holocaust
LA  - English
ER  -