Nazi medicine and the Nuremberg trials: from medical war crimes to informed consent

Offers a reappraisal of Allied responses to Nazi human experiments and the origins of informed consent. Tells the story of Nazi and Allied human experiments, and how war crime investigators were diverted from the mission to uncover weapons of mass destruction to respond instead to the wartime German experiments. With the central premise that the medical trial was in fact a 'genocide trial', the author explores the far-reaching effects of its aftermath in terms of Cold War politics, compensation and research ethics.