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Nazi Science and an Astronomy Supercentre

Programme looking at the Royal Greenwich Observatory's move to Cambridge, asks children about their views of science, and explores the ethical issues surrounding the use and results of Nazi science.

Documentary considering the ethics of using information gained from inhumane Nazi experiements on concentration camp prisoners, which included subjecting many to die of hypothermia in order to find out the causes and length of times it took to die in water to assist in their treatment of their own pilots. Presented by Professor Arthur Kaplan, director of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Wed 26 Sep 1990 20:10

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