Racial Hygiene - Medicine Under the Nazis

Informationen zum Autor Robert N. Proctor is Professor of History and, by courtesy, of Medicine, at Stanford University. Klappentext but also to those interested in science policy and medical ethics. Zusammenfassung This book focuses on how scientists themselves participated in the construction of Nazi racial policy. Proctor demonstrates that many of the political initiatives of the Nazis arose from within the scientific community! and that medical scientists actively designed and administered key elements of National Socialist policy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Origins of Racial Hygiene 2. "Neutral Racism": The Case of Fritz Lenz 3. Political Biology: Doctors in the Nazi Cause 4. The Sterilization Law 5. The Control of Women 6. Anti-Semitism in the German Medical Community 7. The Destruction of "Lives Not Worth Living" 8. The "Organic Vision" of Nazi Racial Science 9. Medical Resistance: The Association of Socialist Physicians 10. The Politics of Knowledge Epilogue. Postwar Legacies Appendix A: German Medical journals under the Nazis Appendix B: University and Research Institutes Devoted to Racial Hygiene Bibliography Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Robert N. Proctor, Proctor Robert N.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.1990
• EAN: 9780674745780
• ISBN: 978-0-674-74578-0
• No. of pages: 464
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Cultural Studies, Medicine, MEDICAL / General, Germany, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / World, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, General & world history, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), General and world history, Modern warfare, Medicine and Nursing, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General