Recognizing the past in the present : new studies on medicine before, during, and after the Holocaust / edited by Sabine Hildebrandt, Miriam Offer, and Michael A. Grodin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hildebrandt, Sabine, Editor.

Contributor:

Hildebrandt, Sabine, editor.

Grodin, Michael A., editor.

Offer, Miriam, 1960- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human experimentation in medicine--Germany--History--20th century.

Human experimentation in medicine.

Medical scientists--Germany--History--20th century.

Medical scientists.

Medicine--Research--Germany--History--20th century.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (411 pages)

Edition:

1

Place of Publication:

Berghahn Books 2020

Summary:

Following decades of silence about the involvement of doctors, medical researchers and other health professionals in the Holocaust and other National Socialist (Nazi) crimes, scholars in recent years have produced a growing body of research that reveals the pervasive extent of that complicity. This interdisciplinary collection of studies presents documentation of the critical role medicine played in realizing the policies of Hitler’s regime. It traces the history of Nazi medicine from its roots in the racial theories of the 1920s, through its manifestations during the Nazi period, on to legacies and continuities from the postwar years to the present.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION Recognizing the Past in the Present

Chapter 1 NON-MECHANISTIC EXPLANATORY STYLES IN INTERWAR GERMAN RACIAL THEORY A Comparison of Hans F. K. Günther and Ludwig Ferdinand Clauß

Chapter 2 FROM “RACIAL SURVEYS” TO MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS IN PRISONER-OF-WAR CAMPS

Chapter 3 “DER DOKTOR” The Writings of Mordechai Lensky during the Interwar Period

Chapter 4 RABBINIC RESPONSA DURING THE HOLOCAUST The Life-for-Life Problem

Chapter 5 UN(B)EARABLE Pregnant Bodies and Obstetrical Genocide

Chapter 6 “COMPLETE MASTERY OF THE SUBJECT” The Connection between Forced Sterilization and Gynecological Fertility Research in National Socialism

Chapter 7 DEFERENCE, PRAGMATISM, IDEOLOGY The Medical Student Kurt Gerstein and the Predicament of Ethical Conduct under National Socialism

Chapter 8 LUDWIG STUMPFEGGER (1910–45) A Career at the Interface of Hitler, Himmler, and Ravensbrück Concentration Camp

Chapter 9 BETWEEN PARTICIPATION IN NATIONAL SOCIALIST MEDICINE AND EVERYDAY ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION On the Economic Argument of the Psychiatric Planning Commission (1941–45)

Chapter 10 DENTISTS IN NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMANY A Fragmented Profession

Chapter 11 ONLY FOLLOWING ORDERS? Aviation Medicine in Nazi Germany

Chapter 12 BLOOD AND BONES FROM AUSCHWITZ The Mengele Link

Part II THE PRESENT Postwar Continuities, Legacies, and Refl ections

Chapter 13 RENEWED TRAUMA Abraham de la Penha’s Testimony against Dr. Franz Lucas in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial

Chapter 14 “SCHLUSS MIT DER RASSENSCHANDE!” FROM SEPARATION TO EXTERMINATION The Fate of Jewish Mentally Ill Patients in Germany and Occupied Poland, 1939–42

Chapter 15 “SINCE SHE WAS IN AUSCHWITZ, THE PATIENT FEELS THAT SHE IS BEING PERSECUTED” Holocaust Survivors and Austrian Psychiatry after World War II

Chapter 16 “TO PREVENT FURTHER UNFOUNDED ALY CONSTRUCTIONS”

Chapter 17 BANEFUL MEDICINE AND A RADICAL BIOETHICS IN CONTEMPORARY ART

Chapter 18 THE HISTORY OF THE VIENNA PROTOCOL

CONCLUSION The Past in the Present and the Future

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78920-785-1

OCLC:

1224360717