Overview
Following decades of silence about the involvement of doctors, medical researchers and other health professionals in the Holocaust and other National Socialist (Nazi) crimes, scholars in recent years have produced a growing body of research that reveals the pervasive extent of that complicity. This interdisciplinary collection of studies presents documentation of the critical role medicine played in realizing the policies of Hitler's regime. It traces the history of Nazi medicine from its roots in the racial theories of the 1920s, through its manifestations during the Nazi period, on to legacies and continuities from the postwar years to the present.
Full Product Details
Author: Sabine Hildebrandt ,
Miriam Offer ,
Michael A. Grodin ,
William E. Siedelman
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Imprint: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781789207842
ISBN 10: 1789207843
Pages: 412
Publication Date: 11 December 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This volume offers new research and insights on a range of issues not often covered in the extant historical literature. Its mix of topics and perspectives is a particular virtue, ranging from the history of medicine to Jewish religious practice, gender, biographical and institutional studies, and the 'postwar continuities and legacies' that are a particular emphasis and strength of the volume. Geoffrey Cocks, Professor Emeritus of History at Albion College
This collection of scholarly papers illustrates the ongoing, unfinished nature of historical research on the Holocaust and medicine, broadly defined...This sobering book is important reading for anyone interested in Jewish or medical history or in the impact of values, ideology, and ethics on scientific practice...Highly Recommended. * Choice This volume offers new research and insights on a range of issues not often covered in the extant historical literature. Its mix of topics and perspectives is a particular virtue, ranging from the history of medicine to Jewish religious practice, gender, biographical and institutional studies, and the 'postwar continuities and legacies' that are a particular emphasis and strength of the volume. * Geoffrey Cocks, Professor Emeritus of History at Albion College
Author Information
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).
