Medicine
and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany: Origins, Practice, Legacies
by Francis R. Nicosia, Jonathan Huener
Paperback from Berghahn Books
The
Nazi Doctors Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
by Robert Jay Lifton
This powerful study, the result of ten years of painstaking research
and extensive interviews, casts new light not only on the origins of the
Holocaust, but explains how physicians, sworn by oath and conviction to
ease suffering, were transformed from healers to systematic killers. |
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A Stand Against Tyranny: Norway's Physicians and the Nazis
by Maynard M. Cohen
Listed under Scandinavia WWII
Mengele
: The Complete Story
by Gerald L. Posner, John Ware, Michaael Berenbaum (Introduction)
Paperback - 364 pages 1st cooper edition
Cooper Square Press; ISBN: 0815410069
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Mengele's
Legacy
by David Jay Weinberg
Book Description: Doctor Izzy Slesinger, America's preeminent
protein biochemist, discovers that HIV is not the cause of AIDS, but rather
the consequence of a genetically shifted cell designed to wipe out the
African races. As Izzy races around the globe, searching for Mengele's
missing research, he is chased by modern Nazis who share Hitler's dream
of a pure Aryan planet.
Hardcover from Rutledge Books, Inc.
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The
Nazi War on Cancer
by Robert N. Proctor
Familiar as we are with the horrific history of Nazi medicine and science,
it may come as a surprise to learn that the Nazi war against cancer was
the most aggressive in the world. Robert N. Proctor's thought-provoking
book, The Nazi War on Cancer recounts this little-known story. The Nazis
were very concerned about protecting the health of the "Volk." Cancer was
seen as a growing threat--and perhaps even held a special place in Adolf
Hitler's imagination (his mother, Klara, died from breast cancer in 1907).
The Nazi doctors fought their war against cancer on many fronts, battling
environmental and workplace hazards (restrictions on the use of asbestos)
and recommending food standards (bans on carcinogenic pesticides and food
dyes) and early detection ("men were advised to get their colons checked
as often as they would check the engines of their cars..."). Armed with
the world's most sophisticated tobacco-disease epidemiology--they were
the first to link smoking to lung cancer definitively--Nazi doctors were
especially passionate about the hazards of tobacco. Hitler himself was
a devout nonsmoker, and credited his political success to kicking the habit.
Proctor does an excellent job of charting these anticancer efforts--part
of what he terms "the 'flip side' of fascism"--and, along the way, touches
on some unsettling issues. Can an immoral regime promote and produce morally
responsible science? Or, in Proctor's words, "Do we look at history differently
when we learn that ... Nazi health officials worried about asbestos-induced
lung cancer? I think we do. We learn that Nazism was a more subtle phenomenon
than we commonly imagine, more seductive, more plausible."
Proctor is no apologist--one of his earlier books, Racial Hygiene is
a scathing account of Nazi atrocities--but he clearly wants to engage in
the complex moral discussions surrounding the fascist production of science
and Holocaust studies. Proctor's thorough research, excellent examples,
and dozens of illustrations are complemented by his authoritative prose.
The Nazi War on Cancer is a fine addition to the literature on both the
Holocaust and the history of medicine. --C.B. Delaney - Amazon.com
Paperback from Princeton Univ Pr
The Last Nazi: The Life and Times of Joseph Mengele
by Gerald Astor
Paperback from Paperjacks
1986
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Josef
Mengele (Heroes and Villains)
by John F. Grabowski
Hardcover from Lucent Books
Doctor
Josef Mengele: The Angel of Death (Holocaust Biographies)
by Holly Cefrey
Library Binding from Rosen Publishing Group
Medical
Science Under Dictatorship
by Leo Alexander
Book Description: How could the Nazis and their perverse beliefs
dominate most of Europe and perpetrate the Holocaust? Dr. Leo Alexander,
M.D., the chief American medical consultant at the Nuremberg war crimes
trials, answers this troubling question in a work described by Dr. C. Everett
Koop as "a remarkable paper."
Dr. Alexander's specific focus is an examination of the process by which
the German medical profession became a willing and unquestioning collaborator
with the Nazis. In describing the "subtle shift in attitude" that led to
the horrors of the concentration camps. Dr. Alexander demonstrates how
"from small beginning" the values of an entire society were perverted.
Moreover, he shows the consequences of disbelief in the sancitity of human
life and the paramount importance of morality in politics.
In the words of Malcolm Muggeridge, "no one could have put the matter
more cogently and authoritatively than has Dr. Leo Alexander." It is therefore
appropriate that this s! tudy, originally addressed to the U.S. medical
profession in the July 14, 1949 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine,
is now available to the public at large.
Paperback from Bibliographic Press
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Women,
Nazis, and Universities: Female University Students in the Third Reich,
1933-1945 (Contributions in Women's Studies)
by Jacques R. Pauwels
Hardcover from Greenwood Publishing Group
1984
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Medical Holocausts: Exterminative Medicine in Nazi Germany and Contemporary
America
by William Brennan
Hardcover from Notable & Academic Book
1980
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