An edition of The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (1986)

The Nazi doctors

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Robert Jay Lifton
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An edition of The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (1986)

The Nazi doctors

medical killing and the psychology of genocide

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  • ★★★★ ★ 4.50 ·
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  • 28 Want to read
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  • 5 Have read

An analysis of the psychological forces behind the transformation of Nazi doctors into mass murderers in Auschwitz and other "death camps."

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Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
Pages
561

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Previews available in: English German Italian

Subjects
Psychological aspects, Human experimentation in medicine, Medical scientists, Psychology, World War, 1939-1945, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Atrocities, Physicians, History, Psychological aspects of Human experimentation in medicine, Psychological aspects of Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Prisons, Human Experimentation, War Crimes, Concentration Camps, Germany, politics and government, 1933-1945, Medicine, germany, Genocide, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), Science, Medical Psychology, Jews, Violence, Warfare, Medical Ethics, History, 20th Century
Places
Germany
Times
1933-1945, 20th century

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Cover of: The Nazi doctors
The Nazi doctors: medical killing and the psychology of genocide
2000, Basic Books
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Cover of: Ärzte im Dritten Reich.
Ärzte im Dritten Reich.
November 1, 1998, Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH & Co. KG / Ullstein Tas
Paperback in German
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I medici nazisti
1988, Rizzoli
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Ärzte im Dritten Reich
1988, Klett-Cotta Verlag
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Table of Contents

Sterilization and the Nazi biomedical vision
Euthanasia : direct medical killing
Resistance to direct medical killing
Wild euthanasia : the doctors take over
Participants
Bringing euthanasia to the camps : action special treatment
Auschwitz institution
Selections on the ramp
Selections in the camp
Socialization to killing
Prisoner doctors : the agony of selections
Prisoner doctors : struggles to heal
Prisoner doctors : collaboration with Nazi doctors
Killing with syringes : phenol injections
Experimental impulse
Human being in an SS uniform : Ernst B.
Dr. Auschwitz : Josef Mengele
Healing-killing conflict : Eduard Wirths
Doubling : the Faustian bargain
Auschwitz self : psychological themes in doubling
Genocide.

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. [507]-539.
Includes index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.54/05
Library of Congress
R853.H8 L54 1986

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Pagination
xiii, 561 p. ;
Number of pages
561

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OL2559277M
ISBN 10
0465049044
LCCN
85073874
OCLC/WorldCat
13334966
Library Thing
21252
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1671985

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The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide was written by Robert Jay Lifton and published in 1986, analyzing the role of German doctors in carrying out a genocide. In the work Lifton details the medical procedures occurring before and during the Holocaust and explores the paradoxical theme of healing killing in which one race was healed by eliminating another; a concept that many used to morally justify their actions. Throughout the book, Lifton provides quotes from interviews he conducted with SS doctors and with victims.

The book was awarded the 1987 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the 1987 National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category.

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