The Nazi Doctors

Author: Robert Jay Lifton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 561

Book Description

Doctors from Hell

Author: Vivien Spitz
Publisher: Sentient Publications
ISBN: 1591810329
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
A chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice, told for the first time by an eyewitness court reporter for the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Nazi doctors. This is the account of 22 men and 1 woman and the torturing and killing by experiment they authorized in the name of scientific research and patriotism. Doctors from Hell includes trial transcripts that have not been easily available to the general public and previously unpublished photographs used as evidence in the trial. The author describes the experience of being in bombed-out, dangerous, post-war Nuremberg, where she lived for two years while working on the trial. Once a Nazi sympathizer tossed bombs into the dining room of the hotel where she lived moments before she arrived for dinner. She takes us into the courtroom to hear the dramatic testimony and see the reactions of the defendants to the proceedings. This landmark trial resulted in the establishment of the Nuremberg code, which set the guidelines for medical research involving human beings. A significant addition to the literature on World War II and the Holocaust, medical ethics, human rights, and the barbaric depths to which human beings can descend.

Justice at Nuremberg

Author: U. Schmidt
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230505244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
This book traces the history of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial of 1946-47, through the eyes of the Austrian émigré psychiatrist Leo Alexander, whose investigations helped the US prosecution. Schmidt provides a detailed insight into the origins of human rights in medical science and into the changing role of international law, ethics and politics.

Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials

Author: P. Weindling
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230506054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 490

Book Description
This book offers a radically new and definitive reappraisal of Allied responses to Nazi human experiments and the origins of informed consent. It places the victims and Allied Medical Intelligence officers at centre stage, while providing a full reconstruction of policies on war crimes and trials related to Nazi medical atrocities and genocide.

Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany

Author: Francis R. Nicosia
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 085745692X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
The participation of German physicians in medical experiments on innocent people and mass murder is one of the most disturbing aspects of the Nazi era and the Holocaust. Six distinguished historians working in this field are addressing the critical issues raised by these murderous experiments, such as the place of the Holocaust in the larger context of eugenic and racial research, the motivation and roles of the German medical establishment, and the impact and legacy of the eugenics movements and Nazi medical practice on physicians and medicine since World War II. Based on the authors' original scholarship, these essays offer an excellent and very accessible introduction to an important and controversial subject. They are also particularly relevant in light of current controversies over the nature and application of research in human genetics and biotechnology.

The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code

Author: George J. Annas
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195101065
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 371

Book Description
This important new work surveys the source and ramifications of the famed Nuremburg Code -- recognized around the world as one of the cornerstones of modern bioethics.

Murderous Medicine

Author: Naomi Baumslag
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN: 9780275983123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
More than 1.5 million concentration camp prisoners died of typhus, a preventable disease. Despite advances in public health measures to control and prevent typhus outbreaks, German doctors, fueled by their racist ideology and their medieval approach to the disease, used the disease as a form of biological warfare against Jews, Slavs, and gypsies. Jewish hospitals in ghettos were burned--along with patients and staff--if typhus was present. In concentration camps, even suspected typhus cases were killed in the gas chambers or through intracardiac injections. Typhus vaccines were tested on prisoners deliberately infected with typhus. Only a handful of doctors were ever prosecuted for their crimes. Against all odds, Jewish health providers struggled to avoid the worst through innovative steps to save lives. Despite the removal of their equipment, drugs, and other resources, they organized health care and sanitary hygienic measures. Doctors were forced to conceal cases, falsify diagnoses and cause of death in order to save lives. This important study explores the role of the International Red Cross in typhus epidemics during and after World War I and World War II. It details the widespread complicity of foreign companies in the Nazi typhus research. Finally, the author stresses the importance of monitoring and holding accountable the medical profession, researchers, and drug companies that continue to invest in research on biological agents as weapons of war.

Racial Hygiene

Author: Robert Proctor
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674745780
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480

Book Description
This book focuses on how scientists themselves participated in the construction of Nazi racial policy. Proctor demonstrates that many of the political initiatives of the Nazis arose from within the scientific community, and that medical scientists actively designed and administered key elements of National Socialist policy.

Karl Brandt: The Nazi Doctor

Author: Ulf Schmidt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 526

Book Description
This is the first full-scale biography of Karl Brandt, one of the most powerful figures of the Third Reich. It tells the story of his rise to power and influence at the heart of Hitler's coterie of trusted advisors and confidants. It also tells of his exe

Approaches to Auschwitz, Revised Edition

Author: Richard L. Rubenstein
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 1611642140
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 513

Book Description
Distinctively coauthored by a Christian scholar and a Jewish scholar, this monumental, interdisciplinary study explores the various ways in which the Holocaust has been studied and assesses its continuing significance. The authors develop an analysis of the Holocaust's historical roots, its shattering impact on human civilization, and its decisive importance in determining the fate of the world. This revised edition takes into account developments in Holocaust studies since the first edition was published.