The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing And The Psychology Of Genocide - Softcover

Lifton, Robert Jay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465049052 ISBN 13: 9780465049059

Publisher: Basic Books, 1988

Synopsis

A brilliant analysis and history of the crucial role that German doctors played in Nazi genocide.

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Review:

"A powerful reminder not only of what happened, but of the monumental evil done by particular human beings who were trained to heal and cure."--Robert Coles, Boston Globe

"This is not only one of the most important works on medical ethics yet written. It also breaks through the frontiers of historiography to provide a convincing psychological interpretation of the Third Reich and the crimes of National Socialism. No one will be able in my view to write perceptively about those times in the future without referring to this interpretation."--Neal Ascherson, New York Review of Books

"A must read.... The book as a whole stands without competition in the English language."--Raul Hilberg, author of Destruction of the European Jews

"This profound study ranks with the most insightful books on the Holocaust."--Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

Robert Jay Lifton is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at John Jay College and the Graduate centre of the City University of New York, and at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is also director of the centre on Violence and Human Survival. Dr. Lifton is the author of many books, including The Nazi Doctors and Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, which won the National Book Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0465049052
• ISBN 13: 9780465049059
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576