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Record Nr.

UNINA9910921007403321

Autore

Ernst Edzard

Titolo

Hitler’s Female Physicians : Women Doctors During the Third Reich and Their Crimes Against Humanity / / by Edzard Ernst

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024

ISBN

9783031739286

3031739280

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 pages)

Disciplina

940.53

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945

Medicine - History

Women - History

History of World War II and the Holocaust

History of Medicine

Women's History / History of Gender

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Part I Medicine’s Descent into Inhumanity -- Chapter 1.Medicine during the Third Reich -- Chapter 2. Female Doctors of the Third Reich.-Chapter 3. Race Hygiene -- Chapter 4 Involuntary Sterilization -- Chapter 5 Involuntary Euthanasia -- Chapter 6 Genocide -- Part II The Women Doctors -- Chapter 7. Albers, Lotte -- Chapter 8. Albrecht, Rosemarie -- Chapter 9. Asam-Bruckmüller, Irene -- Chapter 10. Bauer, Ilse -- Chapter 11. Bensel, Ursula -- Chapter 12 Bluhm, Agnes -- Chapter 13 Eyrich, Hedwig -- Chapter 14 Fauser, Martha -- Chapter 15 Flocken, Erika -- Chapter 16 Hecker, Elisabeth -- Chapter 17 Hermann, Josefine -- Chapter 18 Hielscher, Margarete -- Chapter 19 Hoffmann, Gertrude -- Chapter 20 Hübsch, Margarethe…etc.

Sommario/riassunto

There have been many books about the doctors of the Third Reich and their atrocities. Most of these books neglect the contribution of women in the medical profession. In this book, they are the focus of attention. The first section of the book explains the background of the Third Reich in general and medicine during this period in particular. It addresses the situation of female doctors and why there were relatively



few of them. It goes on to detail the forms of transgression that occurred under Nazi rule—involuntary sterilization, euthanasia, and mass murder of Jews and other groups considered undesirable. The second part of the book is a collection of 38 alphabetically arranged biographies of individual female doctors who participated in these activities. It reports on the actions they took and what happened to them after the war. The final chapter draws some conclusions, which can be briefly summarized as follows: 1) the female doctors' role remains under-researched, 2) generally speaking, female doctors were also guilty, but their transgressions generally less gruesome than those of their male colleagues, 3) many of the deeds of female doctors are nevertheless shocking.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9911006991103321

Autore

Hamming Richard

Titolo

Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newburyport, : Dover Publications, 2012

ISBN

9780486134826

0486134822

9781621986348

1621986349

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1209 p.)

Collana

Dover Books on Mathematics

Disciplina

620.001/518

620.001518

Soggetti

Engineering mathematics

Numerical analysis

Numerical analysis - Data processing

Engineering & Applied Sciences

Applied Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; I Fundamentals and Algorithms; 1 An Essay on Numerical Methods; 2



Numbers; 3 Function Evaluation; 4 Real Zeros; 5 Complex Zeros; 6 Zeros of Polynomials; 7 Linear Equations and Matrix Inversion; 8 Random Numbers; 9 The Difference Calculus; 10 Roundoff; 11 The Summation Calculus; 12 Infinite Series; 13 Difference Equations; II Polynomial Approximation-Classical Theory; 14 Polynomial Interpolation; 15 Formulas Using Function Values; 16 Error Terms; 17 Formulas Using Derivatives; 18 Formulas Using Differences

19 Formulas Using the Sample Points as Parameters20 Composite Formulas; 21 Indefinite Integrals-Feedback; 22 Introduction to Differential Equations; 23 A General Theory of Predictor-Corrector Methods; 24 Special Methods of Integrating Ordinary Differential Equations; 25 Least Squares: Theory; 26 Orthogonal Functions; 27 Least Squares: Practice; 28 Chebyshev Approximation: Theory; 29 Chebyshev Approximation: Practice; 30 Rational Function Approximation; III Fourier Approximation-Modern Theory; 31 Fourier Series: Periodic Functions; 32 Convergence of Fourier Series

33 The Fast Fourier Transform34 The Fourier Integral: Nonperiodic Functions; 35 A Second Look at Polynomial Approximation-Filters; 36 Integrals and Differential Equations; 37 Design of Digital Filters; 38 Quantization of Signals; IV Exponential Approximation; 39 Sums of Exponentials; 40 The Laplace Transform; 41 Simulation and the Method of Zeros and Poles; V Miscellaneous; 42 Approximations to Singularities; 43 Optimization; 44 Linear Independence; 45 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of Hermitian Matrices; N + 1 The Art of Computing for Scientists and Engineers; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Numerical analysis is a subject of extreme interest to mathematicians and computer scientists, who will welcome this first inexpensive paperback edition of a groundbreaking classic text on the subject. In an introductory chapter on numerical methods and their relevance to computing, well-known mathematician Richard Hamming (""the Hamming code,"" ""the Hamming distance,"" and ""Hamming window,"" etc.), suggests that the purpose of computing is insight, not merely numbers. In that connection he outlines five main ideas that aim at producing meaningful numbers that will be read and used, but wil