The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on April 27, 2006
The European Journal of Public Health 2006 16(3):229; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl038
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Russian medicine and the Nuremberg trials
Vasiliy Vlassov** Russian Branch of the Nordic Cochrane Centre, PO Box 13, Moscow 109451, Russia
Correspondence: Vasily Vlassov, Russian Branch of the Nordic Cochrane Centre, PO Box 13, Moscow 109451, Russia, tel: +7 095 4824210, fax: +7 095 4824312, email: vlassov@cochrane.ru
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Ten years ago, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Nuremberg trial of Nazi physicians, many international journals devoted special issues to the history of this trial, and to the subsequent rise of biomedical ethics and regulation of human participation in biomedical research. Surprisingly, not one article was published in Russian professional journals. Searching MEDLINE will give you 282 articles on Nuremberg AND trial but just one in Russian, describing the experience of Soviet physicians testifying in