Artigo Acesso aberto Revisado por pares

Nazi Science — The Dachau Hypothermia Experiments

1990; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 322; Issue: 20 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejm199005173222006

ISSN

1533-4406

Autores

Robert L. Berger,

Tópico(s)

Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging

Resumo

IT is widely recognized that the experiments performed on prisoners in German concentration camps during the Second World War were in fact brutal crimes committed under the guise of medical research. There is controversy, however, about the use of the results obtained from those studies. Among the approximately 30 known projects, the controversy has focused most intensely on the experiments involving hypothermia in humans that were performed at the Dachau concentration camp.1 The debate among scientists and ethicists has spread to the public through the print and broadcast media.2 3 4 5 6 Positions range from a total ban to advocacy of the uninhibited . . .

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