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Medicine and medical ethics in Nazi Germany : origins, practices, legacies / edited by Francis R. Nicosia and Jonathan Huener.

Title
Medicine and medical ethics in Nazi Germany : origins, practices, legacies / edited by Francis R. Nicosia and Jonathan Huener.
Publication
New York : Berghahn Books, 2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Huener, Jonathan.
  • Nicosia, Francis R., 1944-
Description
vii, 160 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Subject
  • Ethics, Medical > history
  • Germany
  • History, 20th Century
  • Medical ethics > Germany > History > 1933-1945
  • Medicine > Germany > History > 1933-1945
  • National Socialism
  • National socialism > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Warfare > history
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-150) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Nazi Medicine in Historiographical Context / Francis R. Nicosia and Jonathan Huener -- 1. The Ideology of Elimination: American and German Eugenics, 1900-1945 / Garland E. Allen -- 2. The Nazi Campaign against Tobacco: Science in a Totalitarian State / Robert N. Proctor -- 3. Physicians as Killers in Nazi Germany: Hadamar, Treblinka, and Auschwitz / Henry Friedlander -- 4. Criminal Physicians in the Third Reich: Toward a Group Portrait / Michael H. Kater -- 5. Pathology of Memory: German Medical Science and the Crimes of the Third Reich / William E. Seidelman -- 6. The Legacy of Nazi Medicine in Context / Michael Burleigh.
ISBN
  • 1571813861 (alk. paper)
  • 157181387X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2001037996
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries