Currently Out Of Stock

The anatomy of murder

Sabine Hildebrandt

01 January 2016

Hardback

€136.75

Collect 410 Reward Points

Currently Out Of Stock

Book Synopsis

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." 

About The Author

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.

Product Details

ISBN: 9781785330674
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Berghahn Books, (01 January 2016)
Number of Pages: 390
Weight: 706 grams
Language: English
Dimensions: 239 x 152 x 27 mm
Categories:: History Of Medicine The Holocaust