Nazi Medicine Readings and Links

Linda M. Woolf, Ph.D.

Readings concerning Nazi medicine and the euthanasia project:

• Aly, G., Chroust, P., & Pross, C. (1994). Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi medicine and racial hygiene. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.

• Angell, M. (1990). The Nazi Hypothermia Experiments and Unethical Research Today. New England Journal of Medicine, 322, 1462-1464.

• Annas, G., & Grodin, M. (Ed.)(1992). The Nazi doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human rights in human experimentation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Aziz, P. (1976). Doctors of death (4 Vols.). Geneva: Ferni Publishers.

• Berger, R. L. (1990). Nazi Science: The Dachau Hypothermia Experiments. New England Journal of Medicine, 322, 1435-1440.

• Biaglioli, M. (1992). Science, Modernity and the 'Final Solution' in S. Friedlander (ed.) Probing the Limits of Representation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

• Bleich, J. D. (1991). Utilization of Scientific Data Obtained through Immoral Experimentation. Tradition, 26, 65-76.

• Burleigh, M. (1994). Death and deliverance: "Euthanasia" in Germany c. 1900-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Caplan, A. L. (1992). When Medicine Went Mad: Bioethics and the Holocaust. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

• Friedlander, H. (1995). The origins of Nazi genocide: From euthanasia to the final solution. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.

• Gallagher, H. G. (1995). By trust betrayed: Patients, physicians, and the license to kill in the Third Reich. Arlington, VA: Vandamere Press.

• Glass, J. (1997). "Life unworthy of life": Racial phobia and mass murder in Hitler's Germany. New York: Basic Books.

• Gutman, Y. & Berenbaum, M. (Eds.) (1994). Anatomy of the Auschwitz death camp. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.

• Hackett, D. A. (Ed.) (1995). The Buchenwald report. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.

• Hoedeman, P. (1991). Hitler or Hippocrates: Medical Experiments and Euthanasia in the Third Reich. Sussex, England: Book Guild.

• Intl Auschwitz Committee (1986). Nazi Medicine : Doctors, Victims and Medicine in Auschwitz.

• Kater, M. (1990). Doctors Under Hitler. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

• Kuhl, S. (1994). The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Lagnado, L. M. and Dekel, S. C. (1991) Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz. New York: William Morrow.

• Lerner, B. H. and Rothman, D. J. (1995). Medicine and the Holocaust: Learning More of the Lessons. Annals of Internal Medicine, 122, 793-794.

• Lifton, R. J. (1986). The Nazi doctors: Medical killing and the psychology of genocide. New York: Basic Books.

• Michalczyk, J. J. (1994). Medicine, ethics, and the Third Reich: Historical and Contemporary Issues. Kansas City, Missouri: Sheed & Ward

• Muller-Hill, B. (1988). Murderous Science : Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies and Others, Germany, 1933-1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Nyiszli, M. (1960). Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Report. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Crest.

• Proctor, R. (1988). Racial hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

• Proctor, R. (1999). The Nazi war on cancer. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

• Pross, C. (1991). Breaking Through the Postwar Coverup of Nazi Doctors in Germany. Journal of Medical Ethics, 17,13-16.

• Pross, C. & Aly, G. (1991). The Value of the Human Being: Medicine in Germany, 1918-1945. Berlin: Ortzekammer Berlin.

• Shelley, L. (1991). Criminal Experiments on Human Beings in Auschwitz and War Research Laboratories: Tewnty Prisoners' Accounts. San Francisco: Mellen Research University Press.

• Steinfels, P. (1986). Biomedical Ethics and the Shadow of Nazism: A Conference on the Proper Use of Nazi Analogy in Dethical Debate. The Hastings Center Report, 6, 1-19.

Readings concerning related topics:

• Dowbiggin, Ian Robert (1997). Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada 1880-1940. New York: Cornell University Press.

• Harris, S. (1994) Factories of death: Japanese biological warfare, 1932-45, and the American cover-Up. London: Routledge.

• Selden, Steven (1999). Inheriting Shame: The Story of Eugenics and Racism in America (Advances in Contemporary Educational Thought Series, Vol. 23). New York: Teachers College Press.

• Tanaka, Y. (1998). Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.

Links:

• Explanation of the Nuremberg Code

• Holocaust Essays: The Doctors of the Holocaust

• Human Experimentation on the Web - Provides additional links.

• Moral Dilemmas Faced by Jewish Doctors during the Holocaust

• The Nazi Doctors and Human Experimentation

• Nazi Medicine Jeffery Barker's Page

• Not a Slippery Slope or a Sudden Subversion: German Medicine and National Socialism in 1933 by Hartmut Hanauske, M.D.

• Nuremberg Lamentation: For the Forgotten Victims of Medical Science by William Seidelman, M.D.

• The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial Web Site

• Operation Paperclip

• Resources on Nonconsensual Human Experimentation

• The T-4 Euthanasia Program

• The T-4 Medical Killing Program

• Unethically Obtained Date: Publish or Reject?

• War Crimes and Medical Science by Jennifer Leaning, M.D.