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Palgrave MacMillan Justice at Nuremberg Leo Alexander and the Nazi Doctors Trial 2006 Edition by U. Schmidt
This book traces the history of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial of 1946-47, through the eyes of the Austrian emigre 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.