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THE NAZI WAR ON CANCER
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| By: |
Robert Proctor |
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Hardback |
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£37.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0691001960 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780691001968 |
| Publisher: |
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
9 May, 1999 |
| Pages: |
380 |
| Description: |
It is common knowledge that the Nazis were responsible for many medical horrors during World War II. This text focuses on the discovery that Nazi scientists were also decades ahead of other countries in promoting health reforms that we today regard as progressive and socially responsible. |
| Synopsis: |
Collaboration in the Holocaust. Murderous and torturous medical experiments. The "euthanasia" of hundreds of thousands of people with mental or physical disabilities. Widespread sterilization of "the unfit". Nazi doctors committed these and countless other atrocities as part of Hitler's warped quest to create a German master race. The author of this text, Robert Proctor, made the discovery however, that Nazi Germany was also decades ahead of other countries in promoting health reforms that we today regard as progressive and socially responsible. Most startling of all, he argues, Nazi scientists were the first to definitively link lung cancer and cigarette smoking. Proctor explores the controversial and troubling questions that such findings raise: were the Nazis more complext morally than we thought? Can good science come from an evil regime? What might this reveal about health activism in our own society? Proctor argues that we must view Hitler's Germany more subtly than we have in the past.But he also concludes that the Nazis' forward-looking health activism ultimately came from the same twisted root as their medical crimes: the ideal of a sanitary racial utopia reserved exclusively for pure and healthy Germans. |
| Illustrations: |
40 halftones, 5 tables |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press |
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Non-returnable |
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