The Anatomy of Murder

Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-067-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 390 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 717 g

Of the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received relatively little attention from historians. While politics and racial laws drove many anatomists from the profession, most who remained joined the Nazi party, and some helped to develop the scientific basis for its racialist dogma. As historian and anatomist Sabine Hildebrandt reveals, however, their complicity with the Nazi state went beyond the merely ideological. They progressed through gradual stages of ethical transgression, turning increasingly to victims of the regime for body procurement, as the traditional model of working with bodies of the deceased gave way, in some cases, to a new paradigm of experimentation with the “future dead.”

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hildebrandt, Sabine

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

William Seidelman

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and German Terms

Introduction

Chapter 1. History of research on medicine and anatomy in National Socialism

Chapter 2. Anatomy and related sciences before 1933

Chapter 3. The interaction between the NS state and anatomists

Chapter 4. The NS state and the Anatomische Gesellschaft

Chapter 5. Anatomists who became victims of NS policies

Chapter 6. Anatomists working in NS Germany

Chapter 7. NS victims and the use of their bodies for anatomical purposes

Chapter 8. The science of anatomy in NS Germany

Chapter 9. After the war

Chapter 10. Developments in professional ethics in anatomy

Chapter 11. Anatomy- on the edge of culture

Appendix: Tables 1-6

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hildebrandt, Sabine
Sabine Hildebrandt is an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Medicine, at Boston Children’s Hospital and a Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on the history and ethics of anatomy, and she is an internationally recognized expert on anatomy in National Socialist Germany.