By Wolfgang Weyers. 755 pp., illustrated. New York, Ardor Scribendi, 2003. $35. ISBN 1-893357-21-X.
The Abuse of Man describes numerous unethical human experimentsthat were performed from the 18th century to the present. Onits cover is a photograph taken in 1942 at the Dachau concentrationcamp of two Nazi "doctors," Holzloehner and Rascher, observinga human subject immersed in ice water during an experiment onhypothermia. Neither wears the physician's white coat; bothare in SS uniforms. Pictures like this have often been usedby physicians to distance themselves from Nazi medical atrocitiesand the Nuremberg Code, the authoritative set of 10 directivesfor human experimentation formulated by U.S. judges at the trial. . . [Full Text of this Article]
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