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John W. Thompsonbiography of a doctor whose revulsion at Nazi human experiments prompted him to seek a humane basis for physician-patient relations. As a military-scientific intelligence officer in 1945, Thompson was the first to name "medical war crimes" as a category for prosecution. His investigations laid the groundwork for the Nuremberg medical trials and for the novel idea of "informed consent." Yet, Thompson has remained a little-known figure, despite his many scientific, literary, and religious connections. This book traces Thompson's life from his birth in Mexico, through his studies at Stanford, Edinburgh, and Harvard, and his service in the Canadian Air Force. It reconstructs his therapeutic work with Unesco in Germany and his time as a Civil Rights activist in New York, where he developed his concept of holistic medicine.Thompson was close to authors like Auden and Spender and inspirational religious figures like Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche. He drew on ideas of Freud, Jung, and Buber. The philosophical and religious dimensions of Thompson's response to Holocaust victims' suffering are key to this study, which cites accounts of psychiatrists, students and patients who knew Thompson personally, war crimes prosecution records, and unpublished personal papers.Paul Weindling is Wellcome Trust Research Professor at the Centre for Health, Medicine and Society: Past and Present, Oxford Brookes University, UK.
Contents
"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GuideNew York: "St. John the Psychiatrist"Hallucinations"Dying We Live"John Thompson's Writings: Published, Unpublished, and LostArchives and Selected BibliographyNotesIndex
