Article(print)1996

Medicine and Human Rights: Reflections on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Doctors' Trial

In: Health and human rights, Volume 2, Issue 1, p. 6-21

Annas, George J; Grodin, Michael A

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Abstract

A retrospective is presented on the 50th anniversary of the trial of Nazi physicians at Nuremberg, Germany, called the Doctors' Trial. The ensuing Nuremberg Code's restrictions on human experimentation are reviewed. The platform of the World Medical Assoc, formed in 1946 with the goal of promoting the health of humanity, is presented. The British Medical Assoc's 1992 documentation of physician involvement in human rights abuses is discussed in the context of hunger strikes. A proposal is made for the creation of a permanent Nuremberg tribunal & international medical tribunal to judge ongoing human rights abuses, as well as the incorporation of humanitarian law provisions into the rules of national medical licensing boards. Adapted from the source document.

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