The Nazi Doctors Medical Killing And The Psychology Of Genocide

by Lifton, Robert Jay

• ISBN13: 9780465049059
• ISBN10: 0465049052
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-04-12
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

A brilliant analysis and history of the crucial role that German doctors played in Nazi genocide.

Author Biography

Robert Jay Lifton is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is also director of the Center on Violence and Human Survival. Dr. Lifton is the author of many books, including The Nazi Doctors and Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, which won the National Book Award.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD	xi
Introduction: "This World Is Not This World"	3	(18)
PART I "LIFE UNWORTHY OF LIFE": THE GENETIC CURE	21	(126)
Introduction to Part I	21	(1)
1. Sterilization and the Nazi Biomedical Vision	22	(23)
2. "Euthanasia": Direct Medical Killing	45	(35)
3. Resistance to Direct Medical Killing	80	(16)
4. "Wild Euthanasia": The Doctors Take Over	96	(7)
5. Participants	103	(31)
6. Bringing "Euthanasia" to the Camps: Action Special Treatment 14f13	134	(13)
PART II AUSCHWITZ: THE RACIAL CURE	147	(270)
Introduction to Part II	147	(5)
7. The Auschwitz Institution	152	(11)
8. Selections on the Ramp	163	(17)
9. Selections in the Camp	180	(13)
10. Socialization to Killing	193	(21)
11. Prisoner Doctors: The Agony of Selections	214	(12)
12. Prisoner Doctors: Struggles to Heal	226	(13)
13. Prisoner Doctors: Collaboration with Nazi Doctors	239	(15)
14. Killing with Syringes: Phenol Injections	254	(15)
15. The Experimental Impulse	269	(34)
16. "A Human Being in an SS Uniform": Ernst B.	303	(34)
17. Dr. Auschwitz: Josef Mengele	337	(47)
18. Healing-Killing Conflict: Eduard Wirths	384	(33)
PART III THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GENOCIDE	417	(84)
Introduction to Part III	417	(1)
19. Doubling: The Faustian Bargain	418	(12)
20. The Auschwitz Self: Psychological Themes in Doubling	430	(36)
21. Genocide	466	(35)
Afterword: Bearing Witness	501	(5)
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS	506	(1)
NOTES	507	(33)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	540	(5)
INDEX	545