Death Of Medicine In Nazi Germany

Author : Wolfgang Weyers
Publisher : Madison Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death of Medicine in Nazi Germany written by Wolfgang Weyers and published by Madison Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only one generation ago, the world watched as highly trained physicians abandoned medical ethics in response to the Nazi regime. Weyers' book takes an in-depth look at the circumstances which allowed this to happen and the steps necessary to ensure such genocide never happens again.

Author : Wolfgang Weyers
Publisher : Madison Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death of Medicine in Nazi Germany written by Wolfgang Weyers and published by Madison Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only one generation ago, the world watched as highly trained physicians abandoned medical ethics in response to the Nazi regime. Weyers' book takes an in-depth look at the circumstances which allowed this to happen and the steps necessary to ensure such genocide never happens again. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : David G. Marwell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393609545
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mengele: Unmasking the "Angel of Death" written by David G. Marwell and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "gripping…sober and meticulous" (David Margolick, Wall Street Journal) biography of the infamous Nazi doctor, from a former Justice Department official tasked with uncovering his fate. Perhaps the most notorious war criminal of all time, Josef Mengele was the embodiment of bloodless efficiency and passionate devotion to a grotesque worldview. Aided by the role he has assumed in works of popular culture, Mengele has come to symbolize the Holocaust itself as well as the failure of justice that allowed countless Nazi murderers and their accomplices to escape justice. Whether as the demonic doctor who directed mass killings or the elusive fugitive who escaped capture, Mengele has loomed so large that even with conclusive proof, many refused to believe that he had died. As chief of investigative research at the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations in the 1980s, David G. Marwell worked on the Mengele case, interviewing his victims, visiting the scenes of his crimes, and ultimately holding his bones in his hands. Drawing on his own experience as well as new scholarship and sources, Marwell examines in scrupulous detail Mengele’s life and career. He chronicles Mengele’s university studies, which led to two PhDs and a promising career as a scientist; his wartime service both in frontline combat and at Auschwitz, where his “selections” sent innumerable innocents to their deaths and his “scientific” pursuits—including his studies of twins and eye color—traumatized or killed countless more; and his postwar flight from Europe and refuge in South America. Mengele describes the international search for the Nazi doctor in 1985 that ended in a cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the dogged forensic investigation that produced overwhelming evidence that Mengele had died—but failed to convince those who, arguably, most wanted him dead. This is the riveting story of science without limits, escape without freedom, and resolution without justice.

Author : P. Weindling
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230506054
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials written by P. Weindling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-10-29 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a radically new and definitive reappraisal of Allied responses to Nazi human experiments and the origins of informed consent. It places the victims and Allied Medical Intelligence officers at centre stage, while providing a full reconstruction of policies on war crimes and trials related to Nazi medical atrocities and genocide.

Author : Bronwyn Rebekah McFarland-Icke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691221405
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nurses in Nazi Germany written by Bronwyn Rebekah McFarland-Icke and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of German nurses who, directly or indirectly, participated in the Nazis' "euthanasia" measures against patients with mental and physical disabilities, measures that claimed well over 100,000 victims from 1939 to 1945. How could men and women who were trained to care for their patients come to kill or assist in murder or mistreatment? This is the central question pursued by Bronwyn McFarland-Icke as she details the lives of nurses from the beginning of the Weimar Republic through the years of National Socialist rule. Rather than examine what the Party did or did not order, she looks into the hearts and minds of people whose complicity in murder is not easily explained with reference to ideological enthusiasm. Her book is a micro-history in which many of the most important ethical, social, and cultural issues at the core of Nazi genocide can be addressed from a fresh perspective. McFarland-Icke offers gripping descriptions of the conditions and practices associated with psychiatric nursing during these years by mining such sources as nursing guides, personnel records, and postwar trial testimony. Nurses were expected to be conscientious and friendly caretakers despite job stress, low morale, and Nazi propaganda about patients' having "lives unworthy of living." While some managed to cope with this situation, others became abusive. Asylum administrators meanwhile encouraged nurses to perform with as little disruption and personal commentary as possible. So how did nurses react when ordered to participate in, or tolerate, the murder of their patients? Records suggest that some had no conflicts of conscience; others did as they were told with regret; and a few refused. The remarkable accounts of these nurses enable the author to re-create the drama taking place while sharpening her argument concerning the ability and the willingness to choose.

Author : Francis R. Nicosia
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 085745692X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany written by Francis R. Nicosia and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Robert Jay Lifton
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780465049059
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nazi Doctors written by Robert Jay Lifton and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1988-04-12 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize With a new preface by the author In his most powerful and important book, renowned psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton presents a brilliant analysis of the crucial role that German doctors played in the Nazi genocide. Now updated with a new preface, The Nazi Doctors remains the definitive work on the Nazi medical atrocities, a chilling exposé of the banality of evil at its epitome, and a sobering reminder of the darkest side of human nature.

Author : Norman Ohler
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1328664090
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blitzed written by Norman Ohler and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller, Norman Ohler's Blitzed is a "fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich” (Washington Post). The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs: cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, which were consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to German soldiers. In fact, troops were encouraged, and in some cases ordered, to take rations of a form of crystal meth—the elevated energy and feelings of invincibility associated with the high even help to account for the breakneck invasion that sealed the fall of France in 1940, as well as other German military victories. Hitler himself became increasingly dependent on injections of a cocktail of drugs—ultimately including Eukodal, a cousin of heroin—administered by his personal doctor. Thoroughly researched and rivetingly readable, Blitzed throws light on a history that, until now, has remained in the shadows. “Delightfully nuts.”—The New Yorker

Author : Michael Burleigh
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521477697
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death and Deliverance written by Michael Burleigh and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1994-10-27 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-scale study in English of the Nazis' so-called 'euthanasia' programme in which over 200,000 people perished.

Author : Michael S. Bryant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781607326090
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confronting the "Good Death" written by Michael S. Bryant and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The scholarship devoted to the complicity of German physicians in the Holocaust is rich and detailed, but there remains, as Michael Bryant demonstrates, still more to learn. It is well established that the techniques employed by the Nazis to exterminate Jews and others in concentration camps were first applied to people in state hospitals who were deemed mentally disabled or terminally ill. What has been less thoroughly investigated is the postwar response of both the Allies and the Germans to these atrocities. Bryant fills the gap with a systematic account of the judicial proceedings against those charged with killing the disabled." New England Journal of Medicine.