Bioethical and ethical issues surrounding the trials and Code of Nuremberg

Presents an interdisciplinary collection of 13 essays looking at philosophical, ethical and legal aspects of the Nuremberg Trials and the Code of Nuremberg. They explore five major areas: the judicial originality of the trials; the epistemological and psychoanalytical backgrounds of racism and antisemitism; biomedical and bioethical issues of the Code; examinations of the concept of "crime against humanity;" and Jewish perspectives on race, purity and impurity and universal ethics