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John W. Thompson
Paul Weindling
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Biography of a World War II-era physician whose work was a response to the suffering of Holocaust victims, and whose investigations laid the groundwork for the Nuremberg Medical Trials. John W. Thompson: Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust is the biography of a doctor whose revulsion at Nazi human experiments prompted him to seek a humane basis for physician-patient relations. As a military scientific intelligence officer in 1945, Thompson was the first to name "medical war crimes" as a special category for prosecution. His investigations laid the groundwork for the Nuremberg medical trials and for the novel idea ... Read more
Biography of a World War II-era physician whose work was a response to the suffering of Holocaust victims, and whose investigations laid the groundwork for the Nuremberg Medical Trials. John W. Thompson: Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust is the biography of a doctor whose revulsion at Nazi human experiments prompted him to seek a humane basis for physician-patient relations. As a military scientific intelligence officer in 1945, Thompson was the first to name "medical war crimes" as a special category for prosecution. His investigations laid the groundwork for the Nuremberg medical trials and for the novel idea ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
456
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
Rochester, United States
ISBN
9781580464604
SKU
V9781580464604
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Ref
99-1
About Paul Weindling
Paul Weindling is Wellcome Trust Research professor in the History of Medicine, Department of History, Oxford Brookes University.
Reviews for John W. Thompson
Almost singlehandedly, Thompson initiated a new Nuremberg Trial targeted specifically at German doctors accused of 'Medical War Crimes.' Author Weindling traces in minute detail how an aroused Thompson overcame resistance in high Allied military and diplomatic circles (a few sought only practical results from those experiments without considering ethics). Thompson would have none of that. He and his adherents informed ... Read more