Medical Ethics and the Nuremberg Code
The dock of defendants seated during the Doctors Trial at Nuremberg.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum via Wikimedia Commons
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum via Wikimedia Commons
After World War II, Nuremberg, Germany, was the site of trials of Nazi officials charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Nuremberg trials were landmarks in the development of international law. But one of them has also been applied in peacetime: the “Medical Trial,” which has helped to shape bioethics ever since.
Twenty Nazi physicians and...
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