Abstract
An Anniversary to Remember from the Pharmacology: The Nuremberg Trials
Highlights
Between 1945 and 1949 after World War II, the former leaders of the German Nazi regime were tried as war criminals by an international military tribunal consisting of judges from the four Allied nations: the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union [1] at the famous Nuremberg Trials
Drugs were used in the Euthanasia Program (Gnadentod, “mercy death”), popularly known as Action T4, a program that allows the mass extermination of patients with “deficiencies” or mental pathologies, and fundamentally in a variant known as “wild euthanasia”, where procedures carried out in the “healthcare” institutions themselves [3,5,6]
Despite the sterilization and euthanasia programs, there were drug research projects in physically and mentally disabled in hospitals and universities did not have any informed consent. Another violation of ethical principles was the use of healthy subjects from concentration camps for human experiments in pharmacology [7,8] where other sectors of the Nazi regime’s health system playing a substantial role, such as the chemical-pharmaceutical industry [9]
Summary
Between 1945 and 1949 after World War II, the former leaders of the German Nazi regime were tried as war criminals by an international military tribunal consisting of judges from the four Allied nations: the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union [1] at the famous Nuremberg Trials. Among violations of ethics in medical professionals, transgressions included the use of drugs.
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