| Description |
x, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Hueper's secret -- Triumphs of the intellect -- "The number one enemy of the state" -- Erwin Liek and the ideology of prevention -- Early detection and mass screening -- Ch. 2. The Gleichschaltung of German cancer research -- The fates of Jewish scientists -- Registries and medical surveillance -- The rhetoric of cancer research -- Romancing nature and the question of cancer's increase -- Ch. 3. Genetic and racial theories -- Cancer and the Jewish question -- Selection and sterilization -- Ch. 4. Occupational carcinogenesis -- Health and work in the Reich -- X-rays and radiation martyrs -- Radium and Uranium -- Arsenic, chromium, quartz, and other kinds of dusts -- The funeral dress of kings (Asbestos) -- Chemical industry cancers -- Ch. 5. The Nazi diet -- Resisting the artificial life -- Meat versus vegetables -- The Führer's food -- The campaign against alcohol -- Performance-enhancing foods and drugs -- Foods for fighting cancer -- Banning butter yellow -- Ideology and reality -- Ch. 6. The campaign against tobacco -- Early opposition -- Making the cancer connection -- Fritz Lickint: The doctor "most hated by the tobacco industry" -- Nazi medical moralism -- Franz H. Müller: The forgotten father of experimental epidemiology -- Moving into action -- Karl Astel's Institute for tobacco hazards research -- Gesundheit über alles -- Reemtsma's forbidden fruit -- The industry's counterattack -- Tobacco's collapse -- Ch. 7. The Monstrous and the prosaic -- The science question under fascism -- Complicating quackery -- Biowarfare research in disguise -- Organic monumentalism -- Did Nazi policy prevent some cancers? -- Playing the Nazi card -- Is Nazi cancer research tainted? -- The flip side of fascism. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Cancer -- Prevention -- Government policy -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Public health -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Health care reform -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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National socialism.
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| ISBN |
0691070512 paperback |
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9780691070513 paperback |
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