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The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by: Robert Jay Lifton City Travel Guides Price: £12.99 Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5405 EAN: 9780465049059 ISBN: 0465049052 Label: Basic Books Manufacturer: Basic Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 576 Publication Date: March 22, 1988 Publisher: Basic Books Studio: Basic Books Sales Rank: 54141 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Physician heal thyselfThis is a very carefully researched book which deserves to be read. It not only covers the involvement by doctors in medical killing but also investigates their psychology. For those interested in medical ethics I'm sure it would be worth reading. The first half of this book charts the historical progression from direct medical killing of those deemed to be 'life unworthy of life' (often mental patients) through to the most complete expression found in Auschwitz. We see how the medical ideal can be twisted by subverting it to the 'higher' ideal of caring for the health of the social organism by surgically removing the 'ailing' parts. We are presented with the complex factors involved in this process. The religious, ... Read More: Rating: - If you wish to learn about the holocaust, this is the book.This book was the best that I have read. It was a required reading and I went into it with a bad attitude. But, as soon as I began to read it I realized that this was a really good book. I recommend it too anyone that wishes to know what Hitler and his men were thinking. It provides an excellent discription and analysis of what the Nazi Doctors were thinking and the emotional stress that they were going through. It is definatly not for the weak. Rating: - An Extraordinary WorkRobert Jay Lifton has written an exceptional work, thoroughly and painstakingly researched, and above all, he presents an analysis of the psychopathology of the Nazi doctors that is so well-thought out and well-presented that I recommend this book above all others for my students of criminal profiling. His discourse on the nature of evil and its place and use in society is unmatched in any book I have read to date. Pat Brown, Director/Investigative Criminal Profiler/The Sexual Homicide Exchange of Washington DC and Vicinity Rating: - A disturbing account of Nazi GermanyI have not picked up "Nazi Doctors" in years, but just seeing it on my book shelf awakens the images that the book produces. It was so disturbing and descriptive that I was unable to finish it. The book was handed down by my father, a medical doctor, whom couldn't finish it either. It's excellently written, but not for the weak. Rating: - A detailed accountIf you only read one book about doctors under Hitler then this is the one. Lifton not only focuses on the leading medical figures in the Third Reich, but also includes eyewitness testimony and disturbing accounts from victims. He offers numerous theories on how medical professionals turned into dispassionate killers in the name of "scientific research." A must read for anyone interested in behavioral pathology. |
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