More than 1.5 million concentration camp prisoners died of typhus, a preventable disease. Despite advances in public health measures to control and prevent typhus outbreaks, German doctors, fueled by their racist ideology and their medieval approach to the disease, used the disease as a form of biological warfare against Jews, Slavs, and gypsies. Jewish hospitals in ghettos were burned--along with patients and staff--if typhus was present. In concentration camps, even suspected typhus cases were killed in the gas chambers ...
Read More
More than 1.5 million concentration camp prisoners died of typhus, a preventable disease. Despite advances in public health measures to control and prevent typhus outbreaks, German doctors, fueled by their racist ideology and their medieval approach to the disease, used the disease as a form of biological warfare against Jews, Slavs, and gypsies. Jewish hospitals in ghettos were burned--along with patients and staff--if typhus was present. In concentration camps, even suspected typhus cases were killed in the gas chambers or through intracardiac injections. Typhus vaccines were tested on prisoners deliberately infected with typhus. Only a handful of doctors were ever prosecuted for their crimes. Against all odds, Jewish health providers struggled to avoid the worst through innovative steps to save lives. Despite the removal of their equipment, drugs, and other resources, they organized health care and sanitary hygienic measures. Doctors were forced to conceal cases, falsify diagnoses and cause of death in order to save lives. This important study explores the role of the International Red Cross in typhus epidemics during and after World War I and World War II. It details the widespread complicity of foreign companies in the Nazi typhus research. Finally, the author stresses the importance of monitoring and holding accountable the medical profession, researchers, and drug companies that continue to invest in research on biological agents as weapons of war.
Read Less
Add this copy of Murderous Medicine: Nazi Doctors, Human Experimentation to cart. $46.00, fair condition, Sold by Second Story Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rockville, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Praeger.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Book. Octavo, xxix, 272 pages. In Fair condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine is red with white and black print. Dust jacket has slight edge wear. Boards in black cloth. Slight wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has inscription in ink on front flyleaf, underlining and marginal notation in ink, pencil, and highlighter throughout. Illustrated: b&w photographs. Photocopied book review laid in. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column L. 1383762. FP New Rockville Stock.
Add this copy of Murderous Medicine: Nazi Doctors, Human Experimentation to cart. $122.53, very good condition, Sold by Orbiting Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hereford, HEREFORDSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2000 by Praeger.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very good. Bumped edges. Scratches to the cover Appears unread, may have minor damage from transit/storage. Next working day dispatch from the UK (Mon-Fri). Please contact us with any queries.
Add this copy of Murderous Medicine: Nazi Doctors, Human Experimentation to cart. $162.56, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Praeger Pub Text.
Add this copy of Murderous Medicine: Nazi Doctors, Human Experimentation to cart. $181.00, like new condition, Sold by Book Forest rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Rafael, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Praeger.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Text block, boards and binding are pristine. Dust wrapper in fine, like new condition. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.
