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Nuremburg Code And The Tuskeegee Syphilis Project

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Nuremberg Code and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Ramon R. Johl
University of Phoenix

The Nuremberg Code
On December 9, 1946, an American military tribunal opened criminal proceedings against twenty three leading German physicians and administrators for their willing participation in war crimes and crimes against humanity. In Nazi Germany, German physicians planned and enacted the "Euthanasia" Program, the systematic killing of those they deemed "unworthy of life." The victims included the mentally retarded, the institutionalized mentally...

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