John W. Thompson: Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust is the biography 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 special 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...