Schmidt Justice at Nuremberg

Leo Alexander and the Nazi Doctors' Trial
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-230-50524-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 386 Seiten

Reihe: St Antony's Series

This book traces the history of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial of 1946-47, through the eyes of the Austrian émigré psychiatrist Leo Alexander, whose investigations helped the US prosecution. Schmidt provides a detailed insight into the origins of human rights in medical science and into the changing role of international law, ethics and politics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schmidt, U.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue The Austrian Jew The Émigré The War Crimes Investigator The Road to Nuremberg Constructing the Doctors' Trial The Nuremberg Code Post-war Medical Ethics Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

ULF SCHMIDT is a Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Kent, UK. He was previously a Wellcome Trust Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, a Senior Associate Member of St. Antony's College and a Research Associate at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford. He is the author of (2002).