Murderous medicine
Subtitle: Nazi doctors, human experimentation, and Typhus
By: Naomi Baumslag ; foreword by E.D. Pellegtrino.
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Human experimentation in medicine -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.; Typhus fever -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.; Prisoners of war -- Medical care -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.; National socialism -- Moral and ethical aspects.; History, 20th Century -- Germany.; Human Experimentation -- history -- Germany.; Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne -- prevention & control -- Germany.; Disabled Persons -- history -- Germany.; Ethics, Medical -- history -- Germany.; Euthanasia, Active -- history -- Germany.; Holocaust -- history -- Germany.; Jews -- history -- Germany.; National Socialism -- history -- Germany.; Physician's Role -- history -- Germany.; War Crimes -- history -- Germany.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Typhus, lice, war and disinfection; title: Decline of German medicine: from euthanasia to murder, delousing and deception, radical treatment and extermination; title: Jewish doctors face formidable challenges, struggle to conceal typhus and save lives; title: SS doctors, pharmaceutical companies, vaccines, drugs and inhuman experimentation, pseudo science; title: The Red Cross fails in its humanitarian vision; title: The evolution of germ warfare: from bodies to germ bombs: putting science ahead of humanitarianism; title: Appendices.