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The Nazi doctors : medical killing and the psychology of genocide / Robert Jay Lifton ; with a new preface by the author.

By: Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926-.
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, [2017]Edition: Fourth edition, paperback.Description: xvii, 561 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780465093397(pbk.).Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | World War (1939-1945) | 1939-1945 | 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 | Ethics, Medical -- history | Human Experimentation | Human Experimentation -- legislation & jurisprudence | War Crimes -- history | Atrocities -- Psychological aspects | Human experimentation in medicine -- Psychological aspects | Medical scientists -- Psychology | Psychological aspects | Germany | GermanyGenre/Form: Print books.
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 14f13 -- 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-539) and index.

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 14f13 -- 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.

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