Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials: From Medical War Crimes to Informed Consent, Paul Julian Weindling (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), 496 pp., cloth 90.00, pbk. 29.95

In this prodigiously researched volume Paul Julian Weindling completes his “informal trilogy” (p. 6) on the relationship between medicine, eugenics, and genocide in modern German history (the other two volumes being Health, Race and German Politics between National Unification and Nazism, 1870–1945...

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Main Author: Pendas, Devin O. (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2007
In: Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 3, Pages: 513-516
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Summary:In this prodigiously researched volume Paul Julian Weindling completes his “informal trilogy” (p. 6) on the relationship between medicine, eugenics, and genocide in modern German history (the other two volumes being Health, Race and German Politics between National Unification and Nazism, 1870–1945 [1993] and Epidemics and Genocide in Eastern Europe, 1890–1945 [2000]). In effect taking up where his earlier studies left off, Weindling here examines the aftermath of Nazi medical crimes and the difficult choices that the western Allied occupation authorities faced in deciding how to respond to them., Weindling recounts the investigation leading up to the Nuremberg medical trial and the trial itself, concluding with an analysis of what he calls the trial's “fragile legacy” (p. 319).
ISSN:1476-7937
Contains:Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcm053