Epidemics and genocide in eastern Europe, 1890-1945 / Paul Julian Weindling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weindling, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epidemics--Europe, Eastern--History--19th century.

Epidemics.

Epidemics--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.

Bacteriology--Germany--History--19th century.

Bacteriology.

Bacteriology--Germany--History--20th century.

Genocide--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.

Genocide.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (486 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How did typhus come to be viewed as a ""Jewish disease"" and what was the connection between the anti-typhus measures during the First World War and the Nazi gas chambers and other genocidal medical practices in the Second World War? This powerful book provides valuable new insight into the history of German medicine in its reaction to the international fight against typhus and the perceived threat of epidemics from the East in the early part of the twentieth century. Professor Weindling examines how German bacteriology became increasingly racialised, and how it sought to eradicate the disease

Contents:

COVER; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF MAPS; LIST OF TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTE ON NAMES OF PLACES AND PERSONS; FOREWORD; I: MICROBES AND MIGRANTS; 1. Disease as Metamorphosis; i. Fevered Visions; ii. The Disappearance of a Disease; iii. International Controls; 2. Eradicating Parasites; i. Racial Therapies; ii. The Rise of Bacteriology; iii. Dissecting the Parasite; iv. Cleansing Bodies; v. The Disinfecting Fires; vi. The New Pesticide; 3. Cleansing Bodies, Defending Borders; i. Bastions of Bacteriology; ii. Cleansing Migrants

iii. The Jewish Bacilli4. The First World War and Combating Lice; i. The Medical War; ii. Heroes as Victims; iii. Allied Strategies; iv. Gas Warfare; v. Sanitizing Lebensraum; II: CONTAINMENT; 5. Defending German Health: Technical Solutions; i. Sealing Borders; ii. The Zyklon Solution; iii. Zyklon Goes Global; iv. The Cremation Solution; 6. The Sanitary Iron Curtain: The Relief of Polish and Russian Typhus; i. Medical Militancy; ii. The Polish Bastion; iii. Containing Bolshevism; iv. ÎBrothers in NeedÌ: The Politics of Aid to Russia; iv. International Intervention

v. The European Health Conferencevi. The Famine as Holocaust; 7. German Soviet Medical Collaboration; i. The Seeds of Cooperation; ii. Lenin's Brain and Medical Cooperation; iii. The German-Russian Institute for Racial Research; iv. Geo-medicine and Racial History; v. The Moscow Bridgehead; 8. The Demise of Internationalism; i. Collecting Pathogens; ii. The Vaccine Network; iii. Nazifying International Health; III: ERADICATION; 9. From Geo-medicine to Genocide; i. Nazifying Geo-medicine; ii. Rekindling Russian Contacts; iii. Recasting the Historical Legacy

iv. From Hygiene to Racial Extermination: Joachim Mrugowsky and the Hygiene Institute of the Waffen-SSv. Between Disinfection and the Holocaust; vi. The Cremation Movement between Internationalism and Nazism; 10. Delousing and the Holocaust; i. Epidemic Racism; ii. Resistance; iii. Operation 'Barbarossa'; iv. Death as 'Disinfection'; v. The Fatal Flame: Crematoria and Genocide; 11. 'Victory with Vaccines': Human Guinea-pigs and Louse-feeders; i. 'The War of the Laboratories'; ii. Crossing Fronts; iii. Allied Advances; iv. Conquest and Production

v. The Behring Institute Lemberg and the Louse-feedersvi. Human Experiments; vii. Survival and Resistance; 12. From Medical Research to Biological Warfare; i. DDT and Medical Entomology; ii. Biological Warfare; 13. Clinical Trials on Trial; i. Final Solutions; ii. The Survival of the Behringwerke; iii. Perpetrators as Survivors; iv. Clinical Trials on Trial; v. Eradicating Diseases, Eradicating Peoples; vi. Final Reflections; APPENDICES; I. Typhus Statistics in Germany, Poland,Russia, and the Ukraine; II. Typhus Vaccines and Sera, 1876-1944; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-154263-6

9786610538560

1-280-53856-2

OCLC:

794857640