Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials: From Medical War Crimes to Informed Consent [Hardcover]

Paul Julian Weindling (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 140393911X | ISBN-13: 978-1403939111 | Publication Date: February 10, 2005 | Edition: First Edition

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 center stage, while providing a full reconstruction of policies on war crimes and trials related to Nazi medical atrocities and genocide. The analysis of the Medical Trial considers the prosecution, defense, judges and observers to present a rounded picture of the court and its context, and the aftermath in terms of Cold War politics, compensation and research ethics.

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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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 496 pages
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; First Edition edition (February 10, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 140393911X
• ISBN-13: 978-1403939111
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,531,030 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Nazi medicine books, November 24, 2006

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This review is from: Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials: From Medical War Crimes to Informed Consent (Hardcover)

The above book by PJ Weindling was given a very favorable review in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
I bought the book several months ago and have read only 185 pages so far.
Very tedious reading. Author mentions lots of names and gives loads of info about the various MDs investigated for medical war crimes. However, he tells us very little about the actual experiments conducted by these physicians and other scientists. We are told that there were experiments in high altitude physiology, cold water tolerance, and infectious diseases.No details about the experiments are presented , at least in the first 185 pages. Some details about the actual experiments and results would be very interesting. Other than the fact that concentration camp inmates obviously did not give consent and most likely suffered greatly from these experiments, there are few other details.

The writing style often makes it difficult to read more than a few pages at a time. Often particular phrases and words are repeated unnecessarily.

A more interesting book about Nazi doctors is "The Nazi Doctors" by Psychiatrist Robert Lifton. He actually interviewed a number of German physicians who were assigned to the concentration camps and other killing centers such as the Psychiatric hospitals.