Murderous medicine : Nazi doctors, human experimentation, and typhus

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Murderous medicine : Nazi doctors, human experimentation, and typhus

Naomi Baumslag ; foreword by E.D. Pellegrino

Praeger, 2005

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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More than 1.5 million concentration camp prisoners died of typhus, a preventable disease. Despite advances in public health measures to control and prevent typhus outbreaks, German doctors, fueled by their racist ideology and their medieval approach to the disease, used the disease as a form of biological warfare against Jews, Slavs, and gypsies. Jewish hospitals in ghettos were burned-along with patients and staff-if typhus was present. In concentration camps, even suspected typhus cases were killed in the gas chambers or through intracardiac injections. Typhus vaccines were tested on prisoners deliberately infected with typhus. Only a handful of doctors were ever prosecuted for their crimes. Against all odds, Jewish health providers struggled to avoid the worst through innovative steps to save lives. Despite the removal of their equipment, drugs, and other resources, they organized health care and sanitary hygienic measures. Doctors were forced to conceal cases, falsify diagnoses and cause of death in order to save lives. This important study explores the role of the International Red Cross in typhus epidemics during and after World War I and World War II. It details the widespread complicity of foreign companies in the Nazi typhus research. Finally, the author stresses the importance of monitoring and holding accountable the medical profession, researchers, and drug companies that continue to invest in research on biological agents as weapons of war.

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Illustrations Foreword by E.D. Pellegrino, M.D. Acknowledgments Introduction Typhus: War, Lice, and Disinfection Decline of German Medicine: From Euthanasia to Murder Jewish Doctors Struggle to Conceal Typhus and Save Lives Pharmaceutical Companies, Typhus Vaccines, Drugs, Doctors and Inhuman Experiments The Red Cross Fails its Humanitarian Vision Germ Warfare: From Bodies to Bombs Appendix 1: Hippocratic Oath--Modern Version Appendix 2: Draft Revision Hippocratic Oath Appendix 3: Experimental Transmission of Typhus Exanthematicus by the Body Louse Appendix 4: Secret Communication from Privy Council's Office, Whitehall, Re: Professor Buxton's Lice Proofing Belt Appendix 5: September 1943 Invoice from Pasteur Institute to a Military Commandant for Vaccine Appendix 6: World Medical Association Declaration of Tokyo (1975) Appendix 7: Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field. Geneva, August 22, 1864 Appendix 8: Letter from George Vincent to Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. August 9 1921 Appendix 9: Declaration of Geneva (1995) Appendix 10: Simon Wiesenthal Center Condemns IRC Defense of Holocaust Silence (1988) Appendix 11: Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (1927) Appendix 12: Circular of the Minister of the Interior of the German Reich Concerning Guidelines for Innovative Therapy and Human Experimentation (1931) Resources Index

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