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

• MitwirkendeR: Allen, Garland E.,; Burleigh, Michael,; Friedlander, Henry,; Huener, Jonathan,; Kater, Michael H.,; Nicosia, Francis R.,; Proctor, Robert N.,; Seidelman, William E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Huener, Jonathan,; Nicosia, Francis R.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2002]; 2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Vermont Studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 Online-Resource

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.

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