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This article lists medical eponyms which have been associated with Nazi human experimentation or Nazi politics. While normally eponyms used in medicine serve to honor the memory of the physician or researcher who first documented a disease or pioneered a procedure, the propriety of such names resulting from unethical research practices is controversial.
Yu was born on 14 September 1879 in Zhenhai, Zhejiang. [2] [3] From 1908 to 1911 and 1913 to 1916, he studied Western medicine at the Osaka Medical University. [4]During his time in Japan, Yu began to take a skeptical line with regards to traditional Chinese medicine. [5]
The Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese was founded in 1887 by the London Missionary Society, with its first graduate (in 1892) being Sun Yat-sen, who later led the Chinese Revolution (1911). The Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese was the forerunner of the School of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, which started in 1911.
Zhang Zhongjing (Chinese: 張仲景; 150–219), formal name Zhang Ji (張機), was a Chinese pharmacologist, physician, inventor, and writer of the Eastern Han dynasty and one of the most eminent Chinese physicians during the later years of the Han dynasty. [1]
Tu Youyou (Chinese: 屠呦呦; pinyin: Tú Yōuyōu; born 30 December 1930) is a Nobel Prize-winning Chinese malariologist and pharmaceutical chemist.She discovered artemisinin (also known as qīnghāosù, 青蒿素) and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, a breakthrough in twentieth-century tropical medicine, saving millions of lives in South China, Southeast Asia, Africa, and South ...
Shivkumar was aghast to learn it was the work of an ardent Nazi whose Vienna institute had dissected the bodies of prisoners, many executed for political reasons after Austria was annexed to Nazi ...
Present-day Chinese pharmacy is a result of pharmaceutical exchanges between China and the rest of the world in the past centuries. [9] The earliest known compilation of medicinal substances in Indian traditional medicine dates to the third or fourth century AD (attributed to Sushruta, who is recorded as a physician of the sixth century BC).
By 1942, more than half of all German physicians had become Nazi Party members. [9] [10] [11] In comparison, only about 10% of the general population became Nazi Party members by 1945. [12] In addition, over 7% of German doctors became members of the Nazi SS, compared to less than 1% of the general population. [13]