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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Proctor, Robert, 1954- Racial hygiene. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988 (OCoLC)574434771 Online version: Proctor, Robert, 1954- Racial hygiene. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988 (OCoLC)608523753 |
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Named Person: | Fritz Lenz |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Proctor; Mazal Holocaust Collection. |
ISBN: | 0674745809 9780674745803 0674745787 9780674745780 9780067474587 0067474586 |
OCLC Number: | 16982101 |
Description: | viii, 414 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Contents: | The origins of racial hygiene -- "Neutral racism": the case of Fritz Lenz -- Political biology: doctors in the Nazi cause -- The Sterilization Law -- The control of women -- Anti-Semitism in the German medical community -- The destruction of "Lives not worth living" -- The "organic vision" of Nazi racial science -- Medical resistance: the Association of Socialist Physicians -- The politics of knowledge -- Epilogue: Postwar legacies. |
Responsibility: | Robert Proctor. |
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Proctor's carefully argued book not only forces us to reassess the dynamics of Nazism but also challenges pervasive notions about the political neutrality and objective value of science and the moral innocence of scientists...[A] provocative study. -- Mary Nolan New York Times Book Review A chilling indictment of the pre-war German scientific community which legitimized Nazi racial theories. Jewish Chronicle It is a deeply disturbing book, concerned as it is with how fine scientific minds, many of which were at least formally committed to the practice of healing, not only "sold themselves to the devil" but, through their own theoretical musings and prejudice-tinctured social concerns, anticipated his arrival. It is an at times passionate exegesis on how "value-free" science is a disingenuous contradiction in terms and, more important, on how people who believe in so chimerical an enterprise could and can contribute to social pathology...The lessons for our own age are baldly obvious. -- Robert A. Pois Science A valuable, disturbing treatise on the darkest chapter of modern medicine. Kirkus Reviews Read more...


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- Medicine -- Political aspects -- Germany.
- Physicians -- Political activity -- Germany.
- National socialism.
- Antisemitism -- Germany.
- Ethics, Medical -- history.
- Eugenics -- history.
- History, 20th Century.
- Political Systems -- history.
- Social Control, Formal.
- Germany.
- Médecine -- Aspect politique -- Allemagne.
- Médecins -- Allemagne -- Activité politique.
- Nazisme.
- Antisémitisme -- Allemagne.
- Antisemitism.
- Medicine -- Political aspects.
- Physicians -- Political activity.
- Lenz, Fritz -- 1887-1976
- Rassenhygiene
- Eugenik
- Medizin
- Nationalsozialismus
- Arzt
- Geneeskunde.
- Eugenetica.
- Rassendiscriminatie.
- Medische ethiek.
- Nationaal-socialisme.
- Medicine -- Political aspects -- Germany -- History.
- Physicians -- Political activity -- Germany -- History.
- Medical ethics -- Germany -- History.
- Eugenics -- Germany -- History.
- Medicine -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
- Expérimentation humaine en médecine -- Allemagne -- 1939-1945.
- Euthanasie.
- Germany -- Medicine -- Ethical aspects, history
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