Epidemics and genocide in eastern Europe, 1890-1945
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Epidemics and genocide in eastern Europe, 1890-1945
Oxford University Press, 2000
Available at 9 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
During the First World War, delousing became routine for soldiers and civilians following the recent discovery that the louse carried typhus germs. But how did typhus come to be viewed as a "Jewish disease" and what was the connection between the anti-typhus measures during the First World War and the Nazi gas chambers in the Second World War?
In this powerful book, Professor Weindling draws upon wide-ranging archival research throughout East and Central Europe to the United States, to provide valuable new insight into the history of German medicine from its response to the perceived threat of typhus epidemics from its Eastern borders. He examines how German experts in tropical medicine took an increasingly racialised approach to bacteriology, regarding supposedly racially inferior peoples as carriers of the disease.So they came to
view typhus as a "Jewish" disease.
By the Second World War as migrants and deportees had become conditioned to expect the ordeal of delousing at border crossings, ports, railway junctions and on entry to camps, so sanitary policing became entwined with racialisation as the Germans sought to eradicate typhus by eradicating the perceived carriers. Typhus had come to assume a new and terrifying genocidal significance, as the medical authorities sealed the German frontiers against diseased undesirables from the east, and gassing
became a favoured means of disease eradication.
Table of Contents
- PART 1: MICROBES AND MIGRANTS
- 1. Disease as Metamorphosis
- 2. Eradicating Parasites
- 3. Cleansing Bodies, Defending Borders
- 4. The First World War and Combating Lice
- PART II: CONTAINMENT
- 5. Defending German Health: Technical Solutions
- 6. The Sanitary Iron Curtain: The Relief of Polish and Russian Typhus
- 7. German-Soviet Medical Collaboration
- 8. The Demise of Internationalism
- PART III: ERADICATION
- 9. From Geo medicine to Genocide
- 10. Delousing and the Holocaust
- 11. 'Victory with Vaccines': Human Guinea Pigs and Louse Feeders
- 12. From Medical Research to Biological Warfare
- 13. Clinical Trials on Trial
- APPENDICES
- Typhus statistics in Germany, Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine
- Typhus Vaccines and Sera, 1876-1944
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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