Doctors Gave the Orders: 75 Years After the Nuremberg Medical Trial
The Nuremberg Medical Trial, during which Nazi physicians were tried for war crimes and profound violations of the most basic ethical tenets of the medical profession, took place 75 years ago, and led to the promulgation of the Nuremberg Code. Many health care professionals, lawyers, and ethicists are aware of the atrocities physicians committed in the concentration campus, but few understand the extent of the involvement of German physicians in the National Socialist movement or connect that history to research and clinical care today. This Symposium will feature international experts in history, law, and ethics who will explore the trial and the events that led to it in detail, and offer insights into the abiding relevance of the Nuremberg Medical Trial and to medicine today.