Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials: From Medical Warcrimes to Informed Consent - Hardcover

Weindling, P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 140393911X ISBN 13: 9781403939111

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Synopsis

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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About the Author

PAUL JULIAN WEINDLING is Wellcome Trust Research Professor in the History of Medicine at the Department of History, Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the author of Health, Race and German Politics between National Unification and Nazism (Cambridge University Press) and Epidemics and Genocide in Eastern Europe (Oxford University Press). He is a member of the Max Planck Presidential Commission on the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft under National Socialism.

Review

'A multifaceted account of the Nuremberg Medical Trial, one that combines a number of theoretical perspectives and is receptive to both the historical context and the personal narrative of those involved. The book is cogently argued and presents a thoroughly informed analysis of the relationship between German medicine, on one hand, and Nazi racial and social policies during the Second World War, on the other.' - Journal of the History...

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Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 140393911X
• ISBN 13: 9781403939111
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 494