The Suppressed Legacy of Nuremberg

The suppressed legacy of Nuremberg.

The story of patient self-determination cannot be told without the Nuremberg trials. Patient autonomy was the first criterion enunciated by the Nuremberg judges and has served as a touchstone for human subject research and patient care ever since. Yet this ideal was in an important sense irrelevant at the moment it was originally proclaimed.

The Legacy of Nuremberg

The Nuremberg trial, later followed by the Tokyo trial, is a milestone in the development of international law. For the first time in modern history, the leaders of a defeated country were indicted for committing serious crimes jeopardizing the bases of peaceful coexistence among individual human beings and peoples: crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. German objections...

Nuremberg code turns 60.

a Information, Evidence and Research Cluster; Member of the WHO Ethics Review Committee. World Health Organization, 20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Correspondence to Michel Thieren (e-mail: [email protected]). b Institut d’éthique biomédicale, Centre médical universitaire, Université de Genève, Switzerland. doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.045443 This month marks sixty years since the Nuremberg...

Computational Engineering Programs at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

The Computational Engineering Program at the University of Erlangen was initiated by the Department of Computer Science as a two year graduate program leading to a Master’s degree in 1997. In 1999, a three year undergraduate program was added. As a peculiarity, the Masters program is taught in English and is thus open to international students who do not speak German. The curriculum consists of...

The Kermis Woodcuts of Sebald Beham in Reformation Nuremberg