Nurses and human subjects research during the Third Reich and now
TitleNurses and human subjects research during the Third Reich and now
Author
Call number179.7/0016
Object number04774g
Place of publicationHouston, Texas, United States
PublisherSpringer
Year of publication
2014
Physical descriptionpp87-98
MaterialArticle
ISBN9783319057019
NotesArticle from the book 'Human subjects research after the Holocaust.' pp87-98
Description
After the end of World War II, the world became aware of the unethical, violent and often capricious human subjects research on the concentration camp prisoners in Germany and Poland that was documented in the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial 1946-1949. During this trial, the participation of physicians and scientists in these experiments was exposed to the world. It was, and still is, difficult to understand how graduates of some of the world's best universities became instruments of the state to further its racial and military agendas