Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis
ALL the world knows of Adolf Hitler and the atrocities committed under his leadership during the Nazi era. But were he and his small band of accomplices alone? Psychiatrists supplied the flawed theories and ideas of eugenics and biochemistry which provided the justification for wholesale slaughter of the "inferior". Timely reading because modern psychiatry is treading down the same path once again - forgetting about healing and concentrating instead on biology, genetics, and brain chemistry. From The Publisher Proctor's carefully argued book not only forces us to reassess the dynamics of Nazism but also challenges pervasive notions about the political neutrality and objective value of science and the moral innocence of scientists ..(a) provocative study.' - Mary Nolan, New York Times Book Review Description from The Reader's Catalog "It is a deeply disturbing book, concerned as it is with how fine scientific minds, many of which were at least formally committed to the practice of healing, not only 'sold themselves to the devil' but, through their own theoretical musings and prejudice-tinctured social concerns, anticipated his arrival. It is an at times passionate exegesis on how 'value-free' science is a disingenuous contradiction in terms and, more important, on how people who believe in so chimerical an enterprise could and can contribute to social pathology... The lessons for our own age are baldly obvious." - Robert A. Pois Customer Comments Rewster122@Aol.Com from Warren, Michigan U.S.A.,
May 12, 1998
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