Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany

Origins, Practices, Legacies

Francis R. Nicosia, Jonathan Huener (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

180 Seiten

2004
Berghahn Books, Incorporated (Verlag)
978-1-57181-387-9 (ISBN)

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The participation of German physicians in medical experiments on innocent people and mass murder is one of the most disturbing aspects of the Nazi era and the Holocaust. Six distinguished historians working in this field are addressing the critical issues raised by these murderous experiments, such as the place of the Holocaust in the larger context of eugenic and racial research, the motivation and roles of the German medical establishment, and the impact and legacy of the eugenics movements and Nazi medical practice on physicians and medicine since World War II.

Based on the authors' original scholarship, these essays offer an excellent and very accessible introduction to an important and controversial subject. They are also particularly relevant in light of current controversies over the nature and application of research in human genetics and biotechnology.

Francis R. Nicosia is the Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of The Third Reich and the Palestine Question, and co-author of The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust.

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. The Ideology of Elimination: American and German Eugenics, 1900-1945

G. Allen

Chapter 2. The Nazi Campaign Against Tobacco: Science in a Totalitarian State

R. Proctor

Chapter 3. Physicians as Killers in Nazi Germany: Hadamar, Treblinka, and Auschwitz

H. Friedlander

Chapter 4. A Criminal Profession in the Third Reich: Toward a Group Portrait of Physicians

M. Kater

Chapter 5. Pathology of Memory: German Medical Science and the Crimes of the Third Reich

W. Seidelman

Chapter 6. The Legacy of Nazi Medicine in Context

M. Burleigh

Appendix: Speech given by the President of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science Hubert Markl on the occasion of the opening of the symposium entitled "Biomedical Sciences and Human Experimentation at Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes - The Auschwitz Connection"

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.2004
Reihe/Serie	Vermont Studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
Verlagsort	Herndon
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	218 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-57181-387-X / 157181387X
ISBN-13	978-1-57181-387-9 / 9781571813879
Zustand	Neuware