Recognizing the Past in the Present

Sabine Hildebrandt is Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and serves as an anatomy educator at Harvard Medical School. She is the author of The Anatomy of Murder: Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich (Berghahn, 2016).

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Acknowledgments



Foreword

William E. Seidelman



Introduction to the Volume: Recognizing the Past in the Present

Sabine Hildebrandt, Miriam Offer, and Michael A. Grodin



Part I: The Past



Chapter 1. Non-Mechanistic Explanatory Styles in Interwar German Racial Theory: A Comparison of Hans F. K. Günther and Ludwig Ferdinand Clauß

Amit Varshizky



Chapter 2. From “Racial Surveys” to Medical Experiments in Prisoner of War Camps

Margit Berner



Chapter 3. "Der Doktor":  The Writings of Mordechai Lensky During the Interwar Period

Miriam Offer



Chapter 4. Rabbinic Responsa During the Holocaust: The Life-for-Life Problem

Johnathan I. Kelly, Erin L. Miller, Rabbi Joseph Polak, Robert Kirschner, and Michael A. Grodin



Chapter 5. Un(B)earable: Pregnant Bodies and Obstetrical Genocide‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

Annette Finley-Croswhite



Chapter 6. “Complete Mastery of the Subject”: The Connection between Forced Sterilization and Gynecological Fertility Research in National Socialism

Gabriele Czarnowski



Chapter 7. Deference, Pragmatism, Ideology: The Medical Student Kurt Gerstein and the Predicament of Ethical Conduct under National Socialism

Mathias Schütz



Chapter 8. Ludwig Stumpfegger (1910–1945): A Career at the Interface of Hitler, Himmler and Ravensbrück Concentration Camp

Stephanie Kaiser and Mathias Schmidt



Chapter 9. Between Participation in National Socialist Medicine and Everyday Administrative Action: On the Economic Argument of the Psychiatric Planning Commission (1941–1945)

Felicitas Söhner



Chapter 10. Dentists in National Socialist (Nazi) Germany: A Fragmented Profession

Matthis Krischel



Chapter 11. Only Following Orders? Aviation Medicine in Nazi Germany

Alexander von Lünen



Chapter 12. Blood and Bones from Auschwitz: The Mengele Link

Paul J. Weindling



Part II: The Present: Postwar Continuities, Legacies, and Reflections



Chapter 13. Renewed Trauma:  Abraham De La Penha’s Testimony against Dr Franz Lucas in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial

Andrew Wisely



Chapter 14. “Schluss mit der Rassenschande!” From Separation to Extermination: The Fate of Jewish Mentally Ill Patients in Germany and Occupied Poland 1939–42

Kamila Uzarczyk



Chapter 15. “Since she was in Auschwitz the patient feels that she is being persecuted”: Holocaust Survivors and Austrian Psychiatry after World War II

Herwig Czech



Chapter 16. “To Prevent Further Unfounded Aly Constructions”

Götz Aly



Chapter 17. Baneful Medicine and a Radical Bioethics in Contemporary Art

Andrew Weinstein



Chapter 18. The History of the Vienna Protocol

Sabine Hildebrandt, Joseph A. Polak, Michael A. Grodin, and William E. Seidelman



Conclusion: The Past in the Present and the Future



Index