Descript |
xiii, 561 p. ; 24 cm. |
Note |
With a new preface by the author. Previously published in 1986. |
Contents |
Contents: 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 institution -- 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 -- The experimental impulse -- A human being in an SS uniform : Ernst B. -- Dr. Auschwitz : Josef Mengele -- Healing-killing conflict : Eduard Wirths -- Doubling : the Faustian bargain -- The Auschwitz self : psychological themes in doubling -- Genocide. |
ISBN |
9780465049059 (pbk.) |
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0465049052 (pbk.) |
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