Anatomy of Murder - Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science During the Third Reich

Informationen zum Autor Sabine Hildebrandt is an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Medicine, at Boston Children’s Hospital and a Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on the history and ethics of anatomy, and she is an internationally recognized expert on anatomy in National Socialist Germany. Klappentext Of the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received relatively little attention from historians. While politics and racial laws drove many anatomists from the profession, most who remained joined the Nazi party, and some helped to develop the scientific basis for its racialist dogma. As historian and anatomist Sabine Hildebrandt reveals, however, their complicity with the Nazi state went beyond the merely ideological. They progressed through gradual stages of ethical transgression, turning increasingly to victims of the regime for body procurement, as the traditional model of working with bodies of the deceased gave way, in some cases, to a new paradigm of experimentation with the "future dead."¿ Zusammenfassung Of the many medical specializations to have been transformed by the rise of National Socialism! anatomy has received little attention. As historian & physician Sabine Hildebrandt reveals! anatomists progressed through gradual stages of ethical transgression. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword William Seidelman Acknowledgements Abbreviations and German Terms Introduction Chapter 1. History of research on medicine and anatomy in National Socialism Chapter 2. Anatomy and related sciences before 1933 Chapter 3. The interaction between the NS state and anatomists Chapter 4. The NS state and the Anatomische Gesellschaft Chapter 5. Anatomists who became victims of NS policies Chapter 6. Anatomists working in NS Germany Chapter 7. NS victims and the use of their bodies for anatomical purposes     Chapter 8. The science of anatomy in NS Germany     Chapter 9. After the war Chapter 10. Developments in professional ethics in anatomy Chapter 11. Anatomy- on the edge of culture Appendix: Tables 1-6 Index ...

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• Authors: Sabine Hildebrandt, Sabine/ Seidelman Hildebrandt, Hildebrandt Sabine
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781785330674
• ISBN: 978-1-78533-067-4
• No. of pages: 390
• Series: No Series Linked
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1940 to c 1949, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater, History: World War II; Genocide History