Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials
From Medical War Crimes to Informed Consent
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9798604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Biddiss (University of Reading, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 121 |
| Issue | 492 |
| Pages | 888-890 |
| Publication date | 2006-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/cel138 |
| OpenAlex | W2082921234 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
SCHOLARLY investigation of medical practices and health policies under the Third Reich came of age only in the 1980s. Until then it had failed to match in quality and scope the historical work already undertaken on many other major aspects of the Nazi experience. Such delayed maturity was attributable in no small measure to the tactics previously deployed by the postwar German medical establishment, which was for long extremely adept at marginalising the enthusiastic complicity of many doctors and health professionals in some of the most criminal manifestations of Hitler's dictatorship. Ranks were closed, so that ghosts could be the more swiftly laid. Early on, the campaign of obfuscation was perhaps most notably exemplified in 1949 through the efforts of the West German Physicians' Chambers to suppress circulation of Alexander Mitscherlich and Fred Mielke's Wissenschaft ohne Menschlichkeit. This featured a large collection of documents used in the so-called Medical Case that had been mounted against Karl Brandt, Reich Health Commissioner, and twenty-two other defendants (all but three of them being doctors) at Nuremberg from December 1946 to August 1947. Those proceedings now provide the central focus for a new monograph by Professor Weindling, who already stands as one of the chief contributors to the notable achievements of the more recent generation of historians studying Nazi medicine
Complicity · Democracy · Dictatorship · German · International law · Nazi Germany · Nazism · Political science · Politics · War crime · World War II · European history and politics · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History · Law · Medical History and Research · Medicine
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2020 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |