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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797917003321

Autore

Hildebrandt Sabine

Titolo

The anatomy of murder : ethical transgressions and anatomical science during the Third Reich / / Sabine Hildebrandt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78533-068-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (390 p.)

Classificazione

NQ 2280

Disciplina

612.0071/143

Soggetti

Human anatomy - Study and teaching - Germany - History - 20th century

Human anatomy - Research - Germany - History - 20th century

Anatomists - Germany

Medical ethics - Germany - History - 20th century

Human experimentation in medicine - Germany - History - 20th century

Germany History 1933-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 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 National Socialist Germany

Chapter 9 - After the WarChapter 10 - Developments in Professional Ethics in Anatomy; Chapter 11 - Anatomy-On the Edge of Culture; Appendix; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"This volume explores how the study of anatomy was conducted during the governance of the Third Reich, from the Third Reich's involvement with university anatomy departments to how the Third Reich



implemented protocols for anatomists"--