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Murderous medicine : Nazi doctors, human experimentation, and Typhus / Naomi Baumslag ; foreword by E.D. Pellegtrino.

By: Publication details: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, c2005.Description: xxix, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0275983129 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 174.2/8 22
LOC classification:
  • R853.H8 B38 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Typhus, lice, war and disinfection -- Decline of German medicine: from euthanasia to murder, delousing and deception, radical treatment and extermination -- Jewish doctors face formidable challenges, struggle to conceal typhus and save lives -- SS doctors, pharmaceutical companies, vaccines, drugs and inhuman experimentation, pseudo science -- The Red Cross fails in its humanitarian vision -- The evolution of germ warfare: from bodies to germ bombs: putting science ahead of humanitarianism -- Appendices.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Typhus, lice, war and disinfection -- Decline of German medicine: from euthanasia to murder, delousing and deception, radical treatment and extermination -- Jewish doctors face formidable challenges, struggle to conceal typhus and save lives -- SS doctors, pharmaceutical companies, vaccines, drugs and inhuman experimentation, pseudo science -- The Red Cross fails in its humanitarian vision -- The evolution of germ warfare: from bodies to germ bombs: putting science ahead of humanitarianism -- Appendices.

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