Paul Weindling is Wellcome Trust Research professor in the History of Medicine, Department of History, Oxford Brookes University.

Almost singlehandedly, Thompson initiated a new Nuremberg Trial targeted specifically at German doctors accused of 'Medical War Crimes.' Author Weindling traces in minute detail how an aroused Thompson overcame resistance in high Allied military and diplomatic circles (a few sought only practical results from those experiments without considering ethics). Thompson would have none of that. He and his adherents informed the public about monstrous experiments undertaken not only by the SS but also by civilian doctors. Those trials duly took place in 1947, thereby establishing an incontestable record of what had transpired in German camps, hospitals, and sanatoria . [An] exhaustive study.

• "Ecce Homo"Mexican ChildhoodPalo Alto Schooling, Stanford StudentTransatlantic PhysiologistEdinburgh PhysicianExcitable HarvardHigh Altitude and Rapid DescentAuden, Anxiety, and the German MindBelsen, "My Crucifix"Medical War Crimes RevelationsExperimental EthicsTherapist for the German PatientUNESCO: At the Conscience of the WorldThe Eau Vive AffairSebastianMatthiasChild GuideNew York: "St. John the Psychiatrist"Hallucinations"Dying We Live"John Thompson's Writings: Published, Unpublished, and LostArchives and Selected BibliographyNotesIndex

Paul Weindling is Wellcome Trust Research professor in the History of Medicine, Department of History, Oxford Brookes University.

Almost singlehandedly, Thompson initiated a new Nuremberg Trial targeted specifically at German doctors accused of 'Medical War Crimes.' Author Weindling traces in minute detail how an aroused Thompson overcame resistance in high Allied military and diplomatic circles (a few sought only practical results from those experiments without considering ethics). Thompson would have none of that. He and his adherents informed the public about monstrous experiments undertaken not only by the SS but also by civilian doctors. Those trials duly took place in 1947, thereby establishing an incontestable record of what had transpired in German camps, hospitals, and sanatoria . [An] exhaustive study.

• "Ecce Homo"Mexican ChildhoodPalo Alto Schooling, Stanford StudentTransatlantic PhysiologistEdinburgh PhysicianExcitable HarvardHigh Altitude and Rapid DescentAuden, Anxiety, and the German MindBelsen, "My Crucifix"Medical War Crimes RevelationsExperimental EthicsTherapist for the German PatientUNESCO: At the Conscience of the WorldThe Eau Vive AffairSebastianMatthiasChild GuideNew York: "St. John the Psychiatrist"Hallucinations"Dying We Live"John Thompson's Writings: Published, Unpublished, and LostArchives and Selected BibliographyNotesIndex

Paul Weindling is Wellcome Trust Research professor in the History of Medicine, Department of History, Oxford Brookes University.

Almost singlehandedly, Thompson initiated a new Nuremberg Trial targeted specifically at German doctors accused of 'Medical War Crimes.' Author Weindling traces in minute detail how an aroused Thompson overcame resistance in high Allied military and diplomatic circles (a few sought only practical results from those experiments without considering ethics). Thompson would have none of that. He and his adherents informed the public about monstrous experiments undertaken not only by the SS but also by civilian doctors. Those trials duly took place in 1947, thereby establishing an incontestable record of what had transpired in German camps, hospitals, and sanatoria . [An] exhaustive study.

• "Ecce Homo"Mexican ChildhoodPalo Alto Schooling, Stanford StudentTransatlantic PhysiologistEdinburgh PhysicianExcitable HarvardHigh Altitude and Rapid DescentAuden, Anxiety, and the German MindBelsen, "My Crucifix"Medical War Crimes RevelationsExperimental EthicsTherapist for the German PatientUNESCO: At the Conscience of the WorldThe Eau Vive AffairSebastianMatthiasChild GuideNew York: "St. John the Psychiatrist"Hallucinations"Dying We Live"John Thompson's Writings: Published, Unpublished, and LostArchives and Selected BibliographyNotesIndex