From Clinic to Concentration Camp: Reassessing Nazi Medical and Racial Research, 1933-1945

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Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

From Clinic to Concentration Camp

Reassessing Nazi Medical and Racial Research, 1933-1945

Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

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English

Routledge
02 May 2017

Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Illness & addiction: social aspects; Sociology; Medical sociology; History of medicine

Series: The History of Medicine in Context

Representing a new wave of research and analysis on Nazi human experiments and coerced research, the chapters in this volume deliberately break from a top-down history limited to concentration camp experiments under the control of Himmler and the SS. Instead the collection positions extreme experiments (where research subjects were taken to the point of death) within a far wider spectrum of abusive coerced research. The book considers the experiments not in isolation but as integrated within wider aspects of medical provision as it became caught up in the Nazi war economy, revealing that researchers were opportunistic and retained considerable autonomy. The sacrifice of so many prisoners, patients and otherwise healthy people rounded up as detainees raises important issues about the identities of the research subjects: who were they, how did they feel, how many research subjects were there and how many survived? This underworld of the victims of the elite science of German medical institutes and clinics has until now remained a marginal historical concern. Jews were a target group, but so were gypsies/Sinti and Roma, the mentally ill, prisoners of war and partisans. By exploring when and in what numbers scientists selected one group rather than another, the book provides an important record of the research subjects having agency, reconstructing responses and experiential narratives, and recording how these experiments – iconic of extreme racial torture – represent one of the worst excesses of Nazism.

Edited by: Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 703g
ISBN: 9781472484611
ISBN 10: 1472484614
Series: The History of Medicine in Context
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 02 May 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Weindling is Research Professor in the History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University, UK. His research covers evolution and society, public health, and human experimentation post-1800. He has especial interests in eugenics, human experiments, corporate philanthropies in the field of international health, and medical refugees from Nazi Germany. He has published on victims and survivors of Nazi experiments and develops research on the thousands of victims and their body parts.