The Nazi Doctors Medical Killing And The Psychology Of Genocide

, by Lifton, Robert Jay

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ISBN: 9780465049059 | 0465049052
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Copyright: 4/12/1988

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A brilliant analysis and history of the crucial role that German doctors played in Nazi genocide.

Robert Jay Lifton is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is also director of the Center on Violence and Human Survival. Dr. Lifton is the author of many books, including The Nazi Doctors and Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, which won the National Book Award.

FOREWORD

Introduction: "This World Is Not This World"

(18)

PART I "LIFE UNWORTHY OF LIFE": THE GENETIC CURE

(126)

Introduction to Part I

(1)

1. Sterilization and the Nazi Biomedical Vision

(23)

2. "Euthanasia": Direct Medical Killing

(35)

3. Resistance to Direct Medical Killing

(16)

4. "Wild Euthanasia": The Doctors Take Over

(7)

5. Participants

103

(31)

6. Bringing "Euthanasia" to the Camps: Action Special Treatment 14f13

134

(13)

PART II AUSCHWITZ: THE RACIAL CURE

147

(270)

Introduction to Part II

147

(5)

7. The Auschwitz Institution

152

(11)

8. Selections on the Ramp

163

(17)

9. Selections in the Camp

180

(13)

10. Socialization to Killing

193

(21)

11. Prisoner Doctors: The Agony of Selections

214

(12)

12. Prisoner Doctors: Struggles to Heal

226

(13)

13. Prisoner Doctors: Collaboration with Nazi Doctors

239

(15)

14. Killing with Syringes: Phenol Injections

254

(15)

15. The Experimental Impulse

269

(34)

16. "A Human Being in an SS Uniform": Ernst B.

303

(34)

17. Dr. Auschwitz: Josef Mengele

337

(47)

18. Healing-Killing Conflict: Eduard Wirths

384

(33)

PART III THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GENOCIDE

417

(84)

Introduction to Part III

417

(1)

19. Doubling: The Faustian Bargain

418

(12)

20. The Auschwitz Self: Psychological Themes in Doubling

430

(36)

21. Genocide

466

(35)

Afterword: Bearing Witness

501

(5)

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

506

(1)

NOTES

507

(33)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

540

(5)

INDEX

545

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The Nazi Doctors Medical Killing And The Psychology Of Genocide

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