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The Nazi doctors : medical killing and the psychology of genocide / Robert Jay Lifton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human experimentation in medicine--Germany--Psychological aspects.
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- Medical scientists--Germany--Psychology.
- Medical scientists.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Psychological aspects.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Psychological aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Atrocities.
- Psychological aspects.
- Concentration Camps.
- History, 20th Century.
- Human Experimentation--history.
- Physicians--psychology.
- Prisons--history.
- War Crimes--history.
- Psychology.
- Germany.
- Human experimentation in medicine--Germany --.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
- Atrocities--Psychological aspects.
- Human experimentation in medicine--Psychological aspects.
- Medical scientists--Psychology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Concentration Camps.
- History, 20th Century.
- Human Experimentation--history.
- Physicians--psychology.
- Prisons--history.
- War Crimes--history.
- Germany.
- Local Subjects:
- Human experimentation in medicine--Germany --.
- Psychological aspects.
- Medical scientists--Germany--Psychology.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 561 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, [1986]
- Summary:
- An analysis of the psychological forces behind the transformation of Nazi doctors into mass murderers in Auschwitz and other "death camps."
- Contents:
- Sterilization and the Nazi biomedical vision
- Euthanasia : direct medical killing
- Resistance to direct medical killing
- Wild euthanasia : the doctors take over
- Participants
- Bringing euthanasia to the camps : action special treatment
- Auschwitz institution
- Selections on the ramp
- Selections in the camp
- Socialization to killing
- Prisoner doctors : the agony of selections
- Prisoner doctors : struggles to heal
- Prisoner doctors : collaboration with Nazi doctors
- Killing with syringes : phenol injections
- Experimental impulse
- Human being in an SS uniform : Ernst B.
- Dr. Auschwitz : Josef Mengele
- Healing-killing conflict : Eduard Wirths
- Doubling : the Faustian bargain
- Auschwitz self : psychological themes in doubling
- Genocide.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-539) and index.
- National Jewish Book Awards - Holocaust, Winner, 1987
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926- Nazi doctors.
- ISBN:
- 0465049044
- 9780465049042
- 0465049052
- 9780465049059
- OCLC:
- 13334966
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