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 'Ffinal 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 University Press.
- Lagnado, L. M. & 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. & 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.
- Nicosia, F. R., & Huener, J. (Eds.). (2002). Medicine and medical ethics in Nazi Germany: Origins, practice, legacies. New York: Berghahn.
- 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.
- Rosner, F., Bennett, J., Cassell, E., Farnsworth, P., Halpern, A., et al. (1991). The Ethics of Using Scientific Data Obtained by Immoral means. New York State Journal of Medicine, 91(2), 54-59.
- 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 ethical debate. The Hastings Center Report, 6, 1-19.
- Weindling, P. J. (2006). Nazi medicine and the Nuremberg trials: From medical war crimes to informed consent. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Readings concerning related topics:
- Barenblatt, D. (2005). A plague upon humanity: The hidden history of Japan’s biological warfare program. New York: HarperPerennial.
- Dowbiggin, I. R. (1997). Keeping America sane: Psychiatry and eugenics
in the United States and Canada 1880-1940. New York: Cornell University
Press.
- Goliszek, A. (2003). In the name of science: A history of secret programs, medical research, and human experimentation. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
- Harris, S. (1994) Factories of death: Japanese biological warfare, 1932-45, and the American cover-up. London: Routledge.
- Hornblum, A. M., Newman, J. L., & Dober, G. J. (2013). Against their will: The secret history of medical experimentation on children in Cold War America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Jones, J. H. (1993). Bad blood: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment. New York: Free Press.
- Lombardo, P. A. (2010). Three generations, no imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press.
- Lombardo, P. A. (Ed.). (2011). A century of eugenics in America: From the Indiana experiment to the human genome era. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
- Reverby, S. M. (Ed.). (2000). Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
- Selden, Steven (1999). Inheriting shame: The story of
eugenics and Racism in America. New York: Teachers College Press.
- Tanaka, Y. (1998). Hidden horrors: Japanese war crimes in World War II. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
- Washington, H. (2008). Medical apartheid: The dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial times to the present. Norwell, MA: Anchor.
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