Science Under Dictatorship

Dr. Alexander's address focuses on Nazi medical experimentation in concentration camps, euthanasia, and mass killings under the Nazis.   The audio above is an excerpt from a longer talk. 

This is the "one hundredth anniversary discourse of the New York Academy of Medicine." It is part of the fourteenth series of Lectures to the Laity. This lecture is titled "Science Under Dictatorship" and was delivered by Dr. Leo Alexander, the director of the Neurobiologic Unit Division of Psychiatric Research of the Boston State Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Harold Brown Keyes of the New York Academy of Medicine introduces the presiding chairman of the evening, the Honorable Geoffrey Parsons, chief editorial writer of the New York Herald Tribune. 

Leo Alexander (October 11, 1905 – July 20, 1985) was an American psychiatrist, neurologist, educator, and author, of Austrian-Jewish origin. He was a key medical advisor during the Nuremberg Trials. Alexander wrote part of the Nuremberg Code, which provides legal and ethical principles for scientific experiments on humans.