The Anatomy of Murder (eBook)

Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich

Sabine Hildebrandt (Autor)

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2016
390 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-068-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Of the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received relatively little attention from historians. While politics and racial laws drove many anatomists from the profession, most who remained joined the Nazi party, and some helped to develop the scientific basis for its racialist dogma. As historian and anatomist Sabine Hildebrandt reveals, however, their complicity with the Nazi state went beyond the merely ideological. They progressed through gradual stages of ethical transgression, turning increasingly to victims of the regime for body procurement, as the traditional model of working with bodies of the deceased gave way, in some cases, to a new paradigm of experimentation with the "e;future dead."e;

Autor

Sabine Hildebrandt is an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Medicine, at Boston Children’s Hospital and a Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on the history and ethics of anatomy, and she is an internationally recognized expert on anatomy in National Socialist Germany.

Inhalt

Foreword
William Seidelman

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and German Terms

Introduction

Chapter 1. History of research on medicine and anatomy in National Socialism
Chapter 2. Anatomy and related sciences before 1933
Chapter 3. The interaction between the NS state and anatomists
Chapter 4. The NS state and the Anatomische Gesellschaft
Chapter 5. Anatomists who became victims of NS policies
Chapter 6. Anatomists working in NS Germany
Chapter 7. NS victims and the use of their bodies for anatomical purposes    
Chapter 8. The science of anatomy in NS Germany    
Chapter 9. After the war
Chapter 10. Developments in professional ethics in anatomy
Chapter 11. Anatomy- on the edge of culture

Appendix: Tables 1-6

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2016
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Physiologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Schlagworte: , Genocide History • History: World War II, Genocide History • wwii history
• ISBN-10: 1-78533-068-3 / 1785330683
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78533-068-1 / 9781785330681