Nazi doctors : medical killing and the psychology of genocide /

Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926-

Nazi doctors : medical killing and the psychology of genocide / medical killing and the psychology of genocide / Robert Jay Lifton. - New York : Basic Books, 2000. - xiii, 561 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-539) and index.

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 instiution -- 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.

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Human experimentation in medicine--Germany.
Medical scientists--Germany.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.

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