{"id":115739,"date":"2017-11-21T16:05:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T21:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/?p=115739"},"modified":"2020-09-17T10:24:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T14:24:21","slug":"professors-mark-70-years-since-nuremberg-doctors-trial","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/news\/articles\/2017\/professors-mark-70-years-since-nuremberg-doctors-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Professors Mark 70 Years since Nuremberg Doctors Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\"thumbnail-nuremberg-doctors-trial\"George Annas<\/a> and Michael Grodin<\/a>, professors in the Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights, are the co-editors of a special section of the January 2018 issue of the\u00a0American Journal of Public Health <\/em>marking the 70th<\/span>\u00a0anniversary of the Nuremberg Doctors Trial.<\/p>\n

The articles in the special section reflect on the Nazi doctors\u2019 trial, which ran from December 1946 through August 1947, and the trial\u2019s relevance today.<\/p>\n

“The Doctors Trial was more than just \u2018a mere murder trial,\u201d Annas and Grodin wrote in an introduction to the special section. \u201cIts purpose was also, in the words of chief prosecutor General Telford Taylor, to \u2018cut out and expose\u2019 the \u2018ideas and motives which moved these [physicians] to treat their fellow men as less than beasts\u2019 so that they do not \u2018become a spreading cancer in the breast of humanity.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The resulting Nuremberg Code was \u201cdesigned to prevent future abuse of research subjects in much more usual nonwar circumstances, and \u2026 is the most important legacy of the Doctors\u2019 Trial,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n

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George Annas, left, and Michael Grodin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Between them, Annas and Grodin have spent 25 years researching the topic. Annas\u2019 essay in the special section reflects on the Nuremberg Code\u2019s requirement of voluntary, competent, informed, and understanding consent of any human subject in an experiment, and its influence on US law. Grodin\u2019s essay situates the trial in the context of the Nazi ideology of racial hygiene, and argues that the Nazis\u2019 practices continue to provide valuable lessons about the dangers inherent in contemporary practices.<\/p>\n

The section also includes an essay by Sondra Crosby<\/a>, associate professor of health law, policy & management, and Gilbert Benavidez (SPH\u201917), a researcher in the center. The essay examines the similarities between the atrocities revealed by the trial and the use of US medical professionals in torture during the War on Terror. \u201cOn the 70th anniversary of the Doctors Trial,\u201d Crosby and Benavidez concluded, \u201cbasic provisions of international human rights law, including the prohibition on torture, are well worth reemphasizing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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