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Acta Paediatr
September 2022
Institute of the History of Medicine, Giessen University, Giessen, Germany.
Acta Paediatr
September 2022
Department of History, Philosophy and Culture, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK.
Coerced human experiments are among the most disturbing forms of ethical violations and criminality in medicine under National Socialism. Until 2016, there was no evidence-based analysis concerning numbers of victims and the type of experiments. A reference resource on Victims of Biomedical Research under NS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSix years after it was first introduced into psychiatry in 1938, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) became the subject of criminal human experiments in Nazi Germany. In 1944, at the Auschwitz III / Monowitz camp hospital, the Polish Jewish prisoner psychiatrist Zenon Drohocki started experimental treatments on prisoners with an ECT device that he had constructed himself. According to eyewitnesses, Drohocki's intention to treat mentally unstable prisoners was soon turned into something much more nefarious by SS doctors (including Josef Mengele), who used the device for deadly experiments.
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