Hitler’s Female Physicians : Women Doctors During the Third Reich and Their Crimes Against Humanity / by Edzard Ernst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ernst, E. (Edzard)

Series:

Medicine Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945.

Medicine--History.

Medicine.

Women--History.

Women.

History of World War II and the Holocaust.

History of Medicine.

Women's History / History of Gender.

Local Subjects:

History of World War II and the Holocaust.

History of Medicine.

Women's History / History of Gender.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024.

Summary:

There have been many books about the doctors of the Third Reich and their atrocities. Most of these books neglect the contribution of women in the medical profession. In this book, they are the focus of attention. The first section of the book explains the background of the Third Reich in general and medicine during this period in particular. It addresses the situation of female doctors and why there were relatively few of them. It goes on to detail the forms of transgression that occurred under Nazi rule—involuntary sterilization, euthanasia, and mass murder of Jews and other groups considered undesirable. The second part of the book is a collection of 38 alphabetically arranged biographies of individual female doctors who participated in these activities. It reports on the actions they took and what happened to them after the war. The final chapter draws some conclusions, which can be briefly summarized as follows: 1) the female doctors' role remains under-researched, 2) generally speaking, female doctors were also guilty, but their transgressions generally less gruesome than those of their male colleagues, 3) many of the deeds of female doctors are nevertheless shocking.

Contents:

Part I Medicine’s Descent into Inhumanity

Chapter 1.Medicine during the Third Reich

Chapter 2. Female Doctors of the Third Reich.-Chapter 3. Race Hygiene

Chapter 4 Involuntary Sterilization

Chapter 5 Involuntary Euthanasia

Chapter 6 Genocide

Part II The Women Doctors

Chapter 7. Albers, Lotte

Chapter 8. Albrecht, Rosemarie

Chapter 9. Asam-Bruckmüller, Irene

Chapter 10. Bauer, Ilse

Chapter 11. Bensel, Ursula

Chapter 12 Bluhm, Agnes

Chapter 13 Eyrich, Hedwig

Chapter 14 Fauser, Martha

Chapter 15 Flocken, Erika

Chapter 16 Hecker, Elisabeth

Chapter 17 Hermann, Josefine

Chapter 18 Hielscher, Margarete

Chapter 19 Hoffmann, Gertrude

Chapter 20 Hübsch, Margarethe…etc.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783031739286

3031739280

OCLC:

1485002666