Nazi doctors
Subtitle: medical killing and the psychology of genocide : with a new preface by the author
By: Robert Jay Lifton.
Edition: [2000 ed.]
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 561
Subjects: Human experimentation in medicine -- Germany -- Psychological aspects; Medical scientists -- Germany -- Psychology; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Psychological aspects; World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Psychological aspects
Notes: Bibliography: p. [507]-539.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Sterilization and the Nazi biomedical vision; title: Euthanasia : direct medical killing; title: Resistance to direct medical killing; title: Wild euthanasia : the doctors take over; title: Participants; title: Bringing euthanasia to the camps : action special treatment; title: Auschwitz institution; title: Selections on the ramp; title: Selections in the camp; title: Socialization to killing; title: Prisoner doctors : the agony of selections; title: Prisoner doctors : Struggles to heal; title: Prisoner doctors : collaboration with Nazi doctors; title: Killing with syringes : phenol injections; title: Experimental impulse; title: Human being in an SS uniform : Ernst B.; title: Dr. Auschwitz : Josef Mengele; title: Healing-killing conflict : Eduard Wirths; title: Doubling : the Faustian bargain; title: Auschwitz self : psychological themes in doubling; title: Genocide.