John W. Thompson - Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Biography of a World War II-era physician whose work was a response to the suffering of Holocaust victims, and whose investigations laid the groundwork for the Nuremberg Medical Trials.

List of contents

"Ecce Homo"
Mexican Childhood
Palo Alto Schooling, Stanford Student
Transatlantic Physiologist
Edinburgh Physician
Excitable Harvard
High Altitude and Rapid Descent
Auden, Anxiety, and the German Mind
Belsen, "My Crucifix"
Medical War Crimes Revelations
Experimental Ethics
Therapist for the German Patient
UNESCO: At the Conscience of the World
The Eau Vive Affair
Sebastian
Matthias
Child Guide
New York: "St. John the Psychiatrist"
Hallucinations
"Dying We Live"
John Thompson's Writings: Published, Unpublished, and Lost
Archives and Selected Bibliography
Notes
Index

About the author

Paul Weindling is Wellcome Trust Research professor in the History of Medicine, Department of History, Oxford Brookes University.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Weindling, Paul J. Weindling
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2013
• EAN: 9781580464604
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-460-4
• No. of pages: 456
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 701 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History; Rochester Studies in Medical H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General