Recognizing the Past in the Present: New Studies on Medicine before, during, and after the Holocaust

Published by Berghahn Books 2020

Recognizing the Past in the Present

New Studies on Medicine before, during, and after the Holocaust

Edited by: Sabine Hildebrandt , Miriam Offer and Michael A. Grodin

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789207859

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About this book

Following decades of silence about the involvement of doctors, medical researchers and other health professionals in the Holocaust and other National Socialist (Nazi) crimes, scholars in recent years have produced a growing body of research that reveals the pervasive extent of that complicity. This interdisciplinary collection of studies presents documentation of the critical role medicine played in realizing the policies of Hitler’s regime. It traces the history of Nazi medicine from its roots in the racial theories of the 1920s, through its manifestations during the Nazi period, on to legacies and continuities from the postwar years to the present.

Author / Editor information

Sabine Hildebrandt is Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and serves as an anatomy educator at Harvard Medical School. She is the author of The Anatomy of Murder: Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich (Berghahn, 2016).

Miriam Offer is Senior Lecturer in the Holocaust Studies Program, Western Galilee College and teaches Medicine and the Holocaust at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of White Coats Inside the Ghetto: Jewish Medicine in Poland During the Holocaust (Hebrew, Yad Vashem, 2015).

Michael A. Grodin is Professor of Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights at the Boston University School of Public Health and is also Professor and Director of the Project on Medicine and the Holocaust at the Eli Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University. His books include the edited volume Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust (Berghahn, 2014).

Sabine Hildebrandt is Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and serves as an anatomy educator at Harvard Medical School. She is the author of The Anatomy of Murder: Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich (Berghahn, 2016).

Reviews

“This collection of scholarly papers illustrates the ongoing, unfinished nature of historical research on the Holocaust and medicine, broadly defined…This sobering book is important reading for anyone interested in Jewish or medical history or in the impact of values, ideology, and ethics on scientific practice…Highly Recommended.” • Choice

“This volume offers new research and insights on a range of issues not often covered in the extant historical literature. Its mix of topics and perspectives is a particular virtue, ranging from the history of medicine to Jewish religious practice, gender, biographical and institutional studies, and the 'postwar continuities and legacies’ that are a particular emphasis and strength of the volume.” • Geoffrey Cocks, Professor Emeritus of History at Albion College

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	x
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
FOREWORD William E. Seidelman Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
INTRODUCTION Recognizing the Past in the Present Sabine Hildebrandt, Miriam Offer and Michael A. Grodin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 NON-MECHANISTIC EXPLANATORY STYLES IN INTERWAR GERMAN RACIAL THEORY A Comparison of Hans F. K. Günther and Ludwig Ferdinand Clauß Amit Varshizky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 2 FROM “RACIAL SURVEYS” TO MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS IN PRISONER-OF-WAR CAMPS Margit Berner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
Chapter 3 “DER DOKTOR” The Writings of Mordechai Lensky during the Interwar Period Miriam Offer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Chapter 4 RABBINIC RESPONSA DURING THE HOLOCAUST The Life-for-Life Problem Johnathan I. Kelly, Erin L. Miller, Rabbi Joseph Polak, Robert Kirschner and Michael A. Grodin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
Chapter 5 UN(B)EARABLE Pregnant Bodies and Obstetrical Genocide Annette Finley-Croswhite Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Chapter 6 “COMPLETE MASTERY OF THE SUBJECT” The Connection between Forced Sterilization and Gynecological Fertility Research in National Socialism Gabriele Czarnowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Chapter 7 DEFERENCE, PRAGMATISM, IDEOLOGY The Medical Student Kurt Gerstein and the Predicament of Ethical Conduct under National Socialism Mathias Schütz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Chapter 8 LUDWIG STUMPFEGGER (1910–45) A Career at the Interface of Hitler, Himmler, and Ravensbrück Concentration Camp Stephanie Kaiser and Mathias Schmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Chapter 9 BETWEEN PARTICIPATION IN NATIONAL SOCIALIST MEDICINE AND EVERYDAY ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION On the Economic Argument of the Psychiatric Planning Commission (1941–45) Felicitas Söhner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
Chapter 10 DENTISTS IN NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMANY A Fragmented Profession Matthis Krischel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
Chapter 11 ONLY FOLLOWING ORDERS? Aviation Medicine in Nazi Germany Alexander von Lünen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
Chapter 12 BLOOD AND BONES FROM AUSCHWITZ The Mengele Link Paul J. Weindling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
Part II THE PRESENT Postwar Continuities, Legacies, and Refl ections
Chapter 13 RENEWED TRAUMA Abraham de la Penha’s Testimony against Dr. Franz Lucas in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial Andrew Wisely Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Chapter 14 “SCHLUSS MIT DER RASSENSCHANDE!” FROM SEPARATION TO EXTERMINATION The Fate of Jewish Mentally Ill Patients in Germany and Occupied Poland, 1939–42 Kamila Uzarczyk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Chapter 15 “SINCE SHE WAS IN AUSCHWITZ, THE PATIENT FEELS THAT SHE IS BEING PERSECUTED” Holocaust Survivors and Austrian Psychiatry after World War II Herwig Czech Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
Chapter 16 “TO PREVENT FURTHER UNFOUNDED ALY CONSTRUCTIONS” Götz Aly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
Chapter 17 BANEFUL MEDICINE AND A RADICAL BIOETHICS IN CONTEMPORARY ART Andrew Weinstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
Chapter 18 THE HISTORY OF THE VIENNA PROTOCOL Sabine Hildebrandt, Rabbi Joseph Polak, Michael A. Grodin and William E. Seidelman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	354
CONCLUSION The Past in the Present and the Future Sabine Hildebrandt, Miriam Offer and Michael A. Grodin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 412
Keywords: History: 20th Century to Present; Genocide History; Jewish Studies

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Published: December 11, 2020
ISBN: 9781789207859