Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany : : Origins, Practices, Legacies / / ed. by Francis R. Nicosia, Jonathan Huener.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2002]
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Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:Vermont Studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust ; 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (180 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION Nazi Medicine in Historiographical Context
  • Chapter One THE IDEOLOGY OF ELIMINATION American and German Eugenics, 1900–1945
  • Chapter Two THE NAZI CAMPAIGN AGAINST TOBACCO Science in a Totalitarian State
  • Chapter Three PHYSICIANS AS KILLERS IN NAZI GERMANY Hadamar, Treblinka, and Auschwitz
  • Chapter Four CRIMINAL PHYSICIANS IN THE THIRD REICH Toward a Group Portrait
  • Chapter Five PATHOLOGY OF MEMORY German Medical Science and the Crimes of the Third Reich
  • Chapter Six THE LEGACY OF NAZI MEDICINE IN CONTEXT
  • APPENDIX
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX