Nazi medical experiments
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A series of nonconsensual medical experiments performed, primarily at Nazi concentration camps, for various miitary and radial ideological reasons. Most surviving experimenters were tried at the Medical Case of the Nuremberg Military Tribunals. The Nuremberg Code, and then the Declaration of Helsinki, were created as a response to what most considered egregious violations of medical ethics.
Brigadier general Telford Taylor, the prosecutor, divided the experiments into two broad categories:[1]
- Crime committed in the name of scientific research, generally with a military-related goal
- Experiments for Nazi race and biological ideology, such as skeleton collection and sterilization
- ↑ Telford Taylor (1992), Opening Statement of the Prosecution, December 9, 1946 (copy edited version), in George Annas and Michael Grodin, The Doctors' Trial and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195070429, pp. 70-86