From clinic to concentration camp : reassessing Nazi medical and racial research, 1933-1945

Author(s)

• Weindling, Paul

Bibliographic Information

From clinic to concentration camp : reassessing Nazi medical and racial research, 1933-1945

edited by Paul Weindling

（The history of medicine in context）

Routledge, 2017

• : hbk

Note

"Representing a new wave of research and analysis on Nazi human experiments and coerced research, the essays in this volume deliberately break with a top-down history limited to concentration camp experiments under the control of Himmler and the SS. Instead the collection positions extreme experiments (where research subjects were taken to the point of death) within a far wider spectrum of abusive coerced research. The book considers the experiments not in isolation but as integrated within wider aspects of medical provision as it became caught up in the Nazi war economy, revealing that researchers were opportunistic and retained considerable autonomy"--Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographies and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Representing a new wave of research and analysis on Nazi human experiments and coerced research, the chapters in this volume deliberately break from a top-down history limited to concentration camp experiments under the control of Himmler and the SS. Instead the collection positions extreme experiments (where research subjects were taken to the point of death) within a far wider spectrum of abusive coerced research. The book considers the experiments not in isolation but as integrated within wider aspects of medical provision as it became caught up in the Nazi war economy, revealing that researchers were opportunistic and retained considerable autonomy. The sacrifice of so many prisoners, patients and otherwise healthy people rounded up as detainees raises important issues about the identities of the research subjects: who were they, how did they feel, how many research subjects were there and how many survived? This underworld of the victims of the elite science of German medical institutes and clinics has until now remained a marginal historical concern. Jews were a target group, but so were gypsies/Sinti and Roma, the mentally ill, prisoners of war and partisans. By exploring when and in what numbers scientists selected one group rather than another, the book provides an important record of the research subjects having agency, reconstructing responses and experiential narratives, and recording how these experiments - iconic of extreme racial torture - represent one of the worst excesses of Nazism.

Table of Contents

List of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements PART ONE: Contexts 1. Introduction: a new historiography of the Nazi medical experiments and coerced research PAUL WEINDLING 2. The use and abuse of medical research ethics: the German Richtlinien/guidelines for human subject research as an instrument for the protection of research subjects - and of medical science, ca. 1931-1961/64 VOLKER ROELCKE 3. The Society of German Neurologists and Psychiatrists and research in the context of eugenics and "euthanasia" HANS-WALTER SCHMUHL PART TWO: Clinics and the sciences 4. Research on the boundary between life and death: coercive experiments on pregnant women and their foetuses during National Socialism GABRIELE CZARNOWSKI AND SABINE HILDEBRANDT 5. August Hirt and the supply of corpses at the Anatomical Institute of the Reichsuniversitat Strassburg (1941-1944) RAPHAEL TOLEDANO 6. Nazi anthropology and the taking of face masks: face and death masks in the anthropological collection of the Natural History Museum, Vienna MARGIT BERNER 7. Beyond Spiegelgrund and Berkatit: human experimentation and coerced research at the Vienna School of Medicine, 1939 to 1945 HERWIG CZECH 8. Murdering the sick in the name of progress? The Heidelberg psychiatrist cart Schneider as a brain researcher and 'therapeutic idealist' MAIKE ROTZOLL AND GERRIT HOHENDORF 9. Der Kinderfachabteilung vorzuschlagen: the selection and elimination of children at the Youth Psychiatric Clinic Loben (1941-45) KAMILA UZARCZYK PART THREE: Concentration camps 10. Children as victims of medical experiments in concentration camps ASTRID LEY 11. The story of how the Ravensbruck "Rabbits" were captured in photos ALEKSANDRA LOEWENAU 12. Rascher and the "Russians": human experimentation on Soviet prisoners in Dachau - a new perspective NICHOLA FARRON 13. Heissmeyer's forgotten victims: tuberculosis experiments on adults in Neuengamme 1944-45 ANNA VON VILLIEZ PART FOUR: Legacies 14. From witness to indictee: Eugen Haagen and his court hearings from the Nuremberg Medical Trial (1946-47) to the Struthof Medical Trials (1952-54) CHRISTIAN BONAH AND FLORIAN SCHMALTZ 15. Informed testimonies: physicians' accounts of Nazi medical experiments in the context of early Czechoslovak war crimes investigations, 1945-48 MICHAL V. SIMUNEK 16. Post-war legacies, 1945-2015: victims, bodies, and brain tissues 000 PAUL WEINDLING Index

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Details

• NCID: BB26077271
• ISBN:
  • 9781472484611
• LCCN: 2016053650
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 376 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : R853.H8
  • DC23 : 610.72
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Human experimentation in medicine -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Medicine -- Research -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Medicine -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Involuntary treatment -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Clinics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Prisoners of war -- Medical care -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Concentration camp inmates -- Medical care -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Racism in medicine -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : National socialism and medicine -- History
  • LCSH : World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Germany
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA43369516