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

Author: Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926-

Edition Statement:[2000 ed.]

Imprint:[New York] : Basic Books, c2000.

Descriptionxiii, 561 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Includes index.

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. [507]-539.

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