Murderous medicine
Subtitle: Nazi doctors, human experimentation, and Typhus
By: Naomi Baumslag ; foreword by E.D. Pellegtrino.
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
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
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.