The Anatomy of Murder : : Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich / / Sabine Hildebrandt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Hildebrandt, Sabine,
• MitwirkendeR: Seidelman, William E.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (390 p.)

Of the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received relatively little attention from historians. While politics and racial laws drove many anatomists from the profession, most who remained joined the Nazi party, and some helped to develop the scientific basis for its racialist dogma. As historian and anatomist Sabine Hildebrandt reveals, however, their complicity with the Nazi state went beyond the merely ideological. They progressed through gradual stages of ethical transgression, turning increasingly to victims of the regime for body procurement, as the traditional model of working with bodies of the deceased gave way, in some cases, to a new paradigm of experimentation with the “future dead.”

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS AND GERMAN TERMS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 HISTORY OF RESEARCH ON MEDICINE AND ANATOMY IN NATIONAL SOCIALISM -- Chapter 2 ANATOMY AND RELATED SCIENCES BEFORE 1933 -- Chapter 3 THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE NS STATE AND ANATOMISTS -- Chapter 4 THE NS STATE AND THE ANATOMISCHE GESELLSCHAFT -- Chapter 5 ANATOMISTS WHO BECAME VICTIMS OF NS POLICIES -- Chapter 6 ANATOMISTS WORKING IN NS GERMANY -- Chapter 7 NS VICTIMS AND THE USE OF THEIR BODIES FOR ANATOMICAL PURPOSES -- Chapter 8 THE SCIENCE OF ANATOMY IN NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMANY -- Chapter 9 AFTER THE WAR -- Chapter 10 DEVELOPMENTS IN PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN ANATOMY -- Chapter 11 ANATOMY—ON THE EDGE OF CULTURE -- APPENDIX -- INDEX