Nazi doctors : medical killing and the psychology of genocide / medical killing and the psychology of genocide - Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926- (New York : Basic Books, 2000)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-539) and index.
Keywords: Human experimentation in medicine -- Germany; Medical scientists -- Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany; World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities