Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments
Foreword William E. Seidelman
Introduction to the Volume: Recognizing the Past in the Present Sabine Hildebrandt, Miriam Offer, and Michael A. Grodin
Part I: The Past
Chapter 1. Non-Mechanistic Explanatory Styles in Interwar German Racial Theory: A Comparison of Hans F. K. Günther and Ludwig Ferdinand Clauß Amit Varshizky
Chapter 2. From “Racial Surveys” to Medical Experiments in Prisoner of War Camps Margit Berner
Chapter 3. "Der Doktor": The Writings of Mordechai Lensky During the Interwar Period Miriam Offer
Chapter 4. Rabbinic Responsa During the Holocaust: The Life-for-Life Problem Johnathan I. Kelly, Erin L. Miller, Rabbi Joseph Polak, Robert Kirschner, and Michael A. Grodin
Chapter 5. Un(B)earable: Pregnant Bodies and Obstetrical Genocide Annette Finley-Croswhite
Chapter 6. “Complete Mastery of the Subject”: The Connection between Forced Sterilization and Gynecological Fertility Research in National Socialism Gabriele Czarnowski
Chapter 7. Deference, Pragmatism, Ideology: The Medical Student Kurt Gerstein and the Predicament of Ethical Conduct under National Socialism Mathias Schütz
Chapter 8. Ludwig Stumpfegger (1910–1945): A Career at the Interface of Hitler, Himmler and Ravensbrück Concentration Camp Stephanie Kaiser and Mathias Schmidt
Chapter 9. Between Participation in National Socialist Medicine and Everyday Administrative Action: On the Economic Argument of the Psychiatric Planning Commission (1941–1945) Felicitas Söhner
Chapter 10. Dentists in National Socialist (Nazi) Germany: A Fragmented Profession Matthis Krischel
Chapter 11. Only Following Orders? Aviation Medicine in Nazi Germany Alexander von Lünen
Chapter 12. Blood and Bones from Auschwitz: The Mengele Link Paul J. Weindling
Part II: The Present: Postwar Continuities, Legacies, and Reflections
Chapter 13. Renewed Trauma: Abraham De La Penha’s Testimony against Dr Franz Lucas in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial Andrew Wisely
Chapter 14. “Schluss mit der Rassenschande!” From Separation to Extermination: The Fate of Jewish Mentally Ill Patients in Germany and Occupied Poland 1939–42 Kamila Uzarczyk
Chapter 15. “Since she was in Auschwitz the patient feels that she is being persecuted”: Holocaust Survivors and Austrian Psychiatry after World War II Herwig Czech
Chapter 16. “To Prevent Further Unfounded Aly Constructions” Götz Aly
Chapter 17. Baneful Medicine and a Radical Bioethics in Contemporary Art Andrew Weinstein
Chapter 18. The History of the Vienna Protocol Sabine Hildebrandt, Joseph A. Polak, Michael A. Grodin, and William E. Seidelman
Conclusion: The Past in the Present and the Future
Index
