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Author Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926-

Title The Nazi doctors : medical killing and the psychology of genocide / Robert Jay Lifton.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [1986]
©1986

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  940.5405 L62    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  940.54 LIFTON    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 561 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [507]-539) and index.
Summary An analysis of the psychological forces behind the transformation of Nazi doctors into mass murderers in Auschwitz and other "death camps."
Contents Sterilization and the Nazi biomedical vision -- Euthanasia : direct medical killing -- Resistance to direct medical killing -- Wild euthanasia : the doctors take over -- Participants -- Bringing euthanasia to the camps : action special treatment -- Auschwitz institution -- Selections on the ramp -- Selections in the camp -- Socialization to killing -- Prisoner doctors : the agony of selections -- Prisoner doctors : struggles to heal -- Prisoner doctors : collaboration with Nazi doctors -- Killing with syringes : phenol injections -- Experimental impulse -- Human being in an SS uniform : Ernst B. -- Dr. Auschwitz : Josef Mengele -- Healing-killing conflict : Eduard Wirths -- Doubling : the Faustian bargain -- Auschwitz self : psychological themes in doubling -- Genocide.
Subject Human experimentation in medicine -- Germany -- Psychological aspects.
Medical scientists -- Germany -- Psychology.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Psychological aspects.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Psychological aspects.
Concentration Camps -- Germany.
History, 20th Century -- Germany.
Human Experimentation -- history -- Germany.
Physicians -- psychology -- Germany.
Prisons -- history -- Germany.
War Crimes -- history -- Germany.
Other Form: Online version: Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926- Nazi doctors. New York : Basic Books, c1986 (OCoLC)565687202
Online version: Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926- Nazi doctors. New York : Basic Books, c1986 (OCoLC)631292737
ISBN 0465049044: $19.95
9780465049042
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