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Publication NameMurderous Medicine : Nazi Doctors, Human Experimentation, and Typhus

LanguageEnglish

SubjectMilitary / World War II, Military / General

Publication Year2005

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Subject AreaHistory

AuthorNaomi Baumslag

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Reviews"ÝW¨e would do well to pay attention yet again to the lessons of history."-The New England Journal of Medicine, "Baumslag's book is an impassioned plea for her fellow physicians to remain committed to the "traditional medical ethics" of the Hippocratic Oath. By exposing the immorality and inhumanity of Nazi doctors, the courageous resistance and dedication of Jewish doctors and the cowardly behavior of the International Red Cross, she hopes to keep alive the memory of an atrocity that we dare not repeat." H-German, "Baumslag documents the complicity by German and Austrian doctors in human experiments and genocide through the exploration of typhus and biological warfare." â€“ SciTech Book News, "Baumslag documents the complicity by German and Austrian doctors in human experiments and genocide through the exploration of typhus and biological warfare." - SciTech Book News, " Murderous Medicine is an important book, a valuable contribution to the literature about Nazi medicine (the qualification is deliberate, as the Nazis' medicine and experiments were neither; they were bestial and torturous, ethically and morally bankrupt). The book should occupy a place on the shelfâ€¦. Murderous Medicine forces us to remember, and hopefully to reflectâ€¦.Today's headlines and newscasts remind us that we still have much to remember and learn. That is why this book is important. We are all responsible." - JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association, "In this book this terrible situation is systemically illuminated. It is written for a broad audience, and is an easily understandable presentation of the epidemiology, medical history and political use of typhus. The essential context and research on typhus is clearly presented. The author also describes the struggle of the Jewish prisoner-doctors against the typhus and their exploitation throughout the Nazi occupation. The analytical distance that Naomi Baumslag, a respected pediatrician from Georgetown University Medical School brings is admirable as is her dedication to human rights and engaging the role of medicine and the political use of public health." â€“ German Medical Journal, "[T]hose who continue to ponder Nazi medical atrocities and want to reflect on the moral failures of Nazi doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and humanitarian organizations will find this book useful." â€“ JCI The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 'A MUST READ FOR ALL....Naomi paints a grim but very real picture of the pathetic conditions of Jews during the Holocaust. The prisoners were kept in pathetic, unsanitary and overcrowded conditions facilitating the spread of typhus... They were then killed under the garb of preventing further infection to other inmates. The horrendous acts of Nazis thus got passed of as acts of great benevolence, even as international agencies like the Red Cross kept watching helplessly.'-Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, 'In this book this terrible situation is systemically illuminated. It is written for a broad audience, and is an easily understandable presentation of the epidemiology, medical history and political use of typhus. The essential context and research on typhus is clearly presented. The author also describes the struggle of the Jewish prisoner-doctors against the typhus and their exploitation throughout the Nazi occupation. The analytical distance that Naomi Baumslag, a respected pediatrician from Georgetown University Medical School brings is admirable as is her dedication to human rights and engaging the role of medicine and the political use of public health.'-German Medical Journal, "In this book this terrible situation is systemically illuminated. It is written for a broad audience, and is an easily understandable presentation of the epidemiology, medical history and political use of typhus. The essential context and research on typhus is clearly presented. The author also describes the struggle of the Jewish prisoner-doctors against the typhus and their exploitation throughout the Nazi occupation. The analytical distance that Naomi Baumslag, a respected pediatrician from Georgetown University Medical School brings is admirable as is her dedication to human rights and engaging the role of medicine and the political use of public health." - German Medical Journal, "In this book this terrible situation is systemically illuminated. It is written for a broad audience, and is an easily understandable presentation of the epidemiology, medical history and political use of typhus. The essential context and research on typhus is clearly presented. The author also describes the struggle of the Jewish prisoner-doctors against the typhus and their exploitation throughout the Nazi occupation. The analytical distance that Naomi Baumslag, a respected pediatrician from Georgetown University Medical School brings is admirable as is her dedication to human rights and engaging the role of medicine and the political use of public health." German Medical Journal, 'Murderous Medicine is thorough, profusely and admirably illustrated and tackles the medical issues clearly.'-The Jerusalem Post, " Murderous Medicine is thorough, profusely and admirably illustrated and tackles the medical issues clearly." - The Jerusalem Post, "A MUST READ FOR ALLâ€¦.Naomi paints a grim but very real picture of the pathetic conditions of Jews during the Holocaust. The prisoners were kept in pathetic, unsanitary and overcrowded conditions facilitating the spread of typhusâ€¦ They were then killed under the garb of preventing further infection to other inmates. The horrendous acts of Nazis thus got passed of as acts of great benevolence, even as international agencies like the Red Cross kept watching helplessly." - Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, 'Baumslag provides useful background information that helps provide the context within which the Nazi regime justified its despicable policies. Thus, Murderous Medicine provides a description of how anti-Semitism influenced the organization and delivery of public health and medical care in the ghettoes of Eastern Europe. It also describes some of the processes by which the Nazi doctors made their decisions to conduct human experiments....The extensive documentation will be helpful to students interested in expanding their knowledge of what must be the worst example of human depravity on record.'-American Journal of Epidemiology, 'The case that the Third Reich engaged in biological warfare using typhus as an ethnic cleansing agent against Jews, gypsies, and Slavs is carefully constructed and fully documented here. Typhus can assume epidemic proportions when living conditions are unsanitary and nutrition is inadequate. Baumslag demonstrates that Nazi Germany deliberately sought to create environments that would engender typhus in the ethnic communities slated for liquidation, and then transported the lice-ridden inhabitants to extermination camps as a public health necessity. That contemporary medicine and public health measures were available to prevent typhus is attested to by the fact that in WW II only 104 cases of typhus were reported in all the Allied armed forces. In contrast, "at least 1.5 million prisoners died of typhus as a direct consequence of murder, malpractice, or deliberate negligence by German doctors." Through silence, interest in profit taking, and desire to engage in human experimentation, the International Red Cross, the German pharmaceutical industry, and the German medical establishment, respectively, collaborated with Hitler's Final Solution....Recommended. All academic libraries.'-Choice, "[T]hose who continue to ponder Nazi medical atrocities and want to reflect on the moral failures of Nazi doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and humanitarian organizations will find this book useful." - JCI The Journal of Clinical Investigation, " Murderous Medicine is thorough, profusely and admirably illustrated and tackles the medical issues clearly." â€“ The Jerusalem Post, '[W]e would do well to pay attention yet again to the lessons of history.'-The New England Journal of Medicine, "Baumslag provides useful background information that helps provide the context within which the Nazi regime justified its despicable policies. Thus, Murderous Medicine provides a description of how anti-Semitism influenced the organization and delivery of public health and medical care in the ghettoes of Eastern Europe. It also describes some of the processes by which the Nazi doctors made their decisions to conduct human experimentsâ€¦.The extensive documentation will be helpful to students interested in expanding their knowledge of what must be the worst example of human depravity on record." - American Journal of Epidemiology, "In Murderous Medicine Naomi Baumslag documents the complicity of Nazi doctors and pharmaceutical companies in murderous medical experiments related to epidemic typhus to further Jewish genocide....Baumslag argues that doctors pressured Nazi officials to proceed swiftly to quarantine and ghettoization to further the eradication of the disease - not typhus, but the Jews themselves. Typhus prevention rituals, including shaving and gassing, were used under the subterfuge of providing health care. Several million Jews were murdered as a direct consequence. Underlining the point that the goal was to kill Jews, she notes, with all their barbaric and unethical experiments the German researchers were unable to control typhus and get rid of lice. Jews were left in a diseased environment and doomed to die. It is an important story, and one well worth documenting." â€“ Journal of Clinical Medicine, "A MUST READ FOR ALL....Naomi paints a grim but very real picture of the pathetic conditions of Jews during the Holocaust. The prisoners were kept in pathetic, unsanitary and overcrowded conditions facilitating the spread of typhus... They were then killed under the garb of preventing further infection to other inmates. The horrendous acts of Nazis thus got passed of as acts of great benevolence, even as international agencies like the Red Cross kept watching helplessly." Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, "Baumslag provides useful background information that helps provide the context within which the Nazi regime justified its despicable policies. Thus, Murderous Medicine provides a description of how anti-Semitism influenced the organization and delivery of public health and medical care in the ghettoes of Eastern Europe. It also describes some of the processes by which the Nazi doctors made their decisions to conduct human experiments....The extensive documentation will be helpful to students interested in expanding their knowledge of what must be the worst example of human depravity on record." â€“ American Journal of Epidemiology, "The case that the Third Reich engaged in biological warfare using typhus as an ethnic cleansing agent against Jews, gypsies, and Slavs is carefully constructed and fully documented here. Typhus can assume epidemic proportions when living conditions are unsanitary and nutrition is inadequate. Baumslag demonstrates that Nazi Germany deliberately sought to create environments that would engender typhus in the ethnic communities slated for liquidation, and then transported the lice-ridden inhabitants to extermination camps as a public health necessity. That contemporary medicine and public health measures were available to prevent typhus is attested to by the fact that in WW II only 104 cases of typhus were reported in all the Allied armed forces. In contrast, at least 1.5 million prisoners died of typhus as a direct consequence of murder, malpractice, or deliberate negligence by German doctors. Through silence, interest in profit taking, and desire to engage in human experimentation, the International Red Cross, the German pharmaceutical industry, and the German medical establishment, respectively, collaborated with Hitler's Final Solution....Recommended. All academic libraries." â€“ Choice, 'Baumslag's book is an impassioned plea for her fellow physicians to remain committed to the "traditional medical ethics" of the Hippocratic Oath. By exposing the immorality and inhumanity of Nazi doctors, the courageous resistance and dedication of Jewish doctors and the cowardly behavior of the International Red Cross, she hopes to keep alive the memory of an atrocity that we dare not repeat.'-H-German, "Murderous Medicine is an important book, a valuable contribution to the literature about Nazi "medicine" (the qualification is deliberate, as the Nazis' "medicine" and "experiments" were neither; they were bestial and torturous, ethically and morally bankrupt). The book should occupy a place on the shelf....Murderous Medicine forces us to remember, and hopefully to reflect....Today's headlines and newscasts remind us that we still have much to remember and learn. That is why this book is important. We are all responsible." JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association, " Murderous Medicine is an important book, a valuable contribution to the literature about Nazi medicine (the qualification is deliberate, as the Nazis' medicine and experiments were neither; they were bestial and torturous, ethically and morally bankrupt). The book should occupy a place on the shelf.... Murderous Medicine forces us to remember, and hopefully to reflect....Today's headlines and newscasts remind us that we still have much to remember and learn. That is why this book is important. We are all responsible." â€“ JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association, "The case that the Third Reich engaged in biological warfare using typhus as an ethnic cleansing agent against Jews, gypsies, and Slavs is carefully constructed and fully documented here. Typhus can assume epidemic proportions when living conditions are unsanitary and nutrition is inadequate. Baumslag demonstrates that Nazi Germany deliberately sought to create environments that would engender typhus in the ethnic communities slated for liquidation, and then transported the lice-ridden inhabitants to extermination camps as a public health necessity. That contemporary medicine and public health measures were available to prevent typhus is attested to by the fact that in WW II only 104 cases of typhus were reported in all the Allied armed forces. In contrast, "at least 1.5 million prisoners died of typhus as a direct consequence of murder, malpractice, or deliberate negligence by German doctors." Through silence, interest in profit taking, and desire to engage in human experimentation, the International Red Cross, the German pharmaceutical industry, and the German medical establishment, respectively, collaborated with Hitler's Final Solution....Recommended. All academic libraries." Choice, 'In Murderous Medicine Naomi Baumslag documents the complicity of Nazi doctors and pharmaceutical companies in murderous medical experiments related to epidemic typhus to further Jewish genocide....Baumslag argues that doctors pressured Nazi officials to proceed swiftly to quarantine and ghettoization to further the "eradication" of the disease - not typhus, but the Jews themselves. Typhus prevention rituals, including shaving and gassing, were used under the subterfuge of providing health care. Several million Jews were murdered as a direct consequence. Underlining the point that the goal was to kill Jews, she notes, "with all their barbaric and unethical experiments the German researchers were unable to control typhus and get rid of lice." Jews were left in a diseased environment and doomed to die. It is an important story, and one well worth documenting.'-Journal of Clinical Medicine, 'Baumslag documents the complicity by German and Austrian doctors in human experiments and genocide through the exploration of typhus and biological warfare.'-SciTech Book News, "[W]e would do well to pay attention yet again to the lessons of history." - The New England Journal of Medicine, "Baumslag's book is an impassioned plea for her fellow physicians to remain committed to the traditional medical ethics of the Hippocratic Oath. By exposing the immorality and inhumanity of Nazi doctors, the courageous resistance and dedication of Jewish doctors and the cowardly behavior of the International Red Cross, she hopes to keep alive the memory of an atrocity that we dare not repeat." â€“ H-German, '[T]hose who continue to ponder Nazi medical atrocities and want to reflect on the moral failures of Nazi doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and humanitarian organizations will find this book useful.'-JCI The Journal of Clinical Investigation, "Baumslag explores in impressive detail how typhus was characterised by Nazis as a Jewish plague." - The Lancet, "[W]e would do well to pay attention yet again to the lessons of history." The New England Journal of Medicine, "In Murderous Medicine Naomi Baumslag documents the complicity of Nazi doctors and pharmaceutical companies in murderous medical experiments related to epidemic typhus to further Jewish genocide....Baumslag argues that doctors pressured Nazi officials to proceed swiftly to quarantine and ghettoization to further the "eradication" of the disease - not typhus, but the Jews themselves. Typhus prevention rituals, including shaving and gassing, were used under the subterfuge of providing health care. Several million Jews were murdered as a direct consequence. Underlining the point that the goal was to kill Jews, she notes, "with all their barbaric and unethical experiments the German researchers were unable to control typhus and get rid of lice." Jews were left in a diseased environment and doomed to die. It is an important story, and one well worth documenting." Journal of Clinical Medicine, 'Baumslag explores in impressive detail how typhus was characterised by Nazis as a Jewish plague.'-The Lancet, 'Murderous Medicine is an important book, a valuable contribution to the literature about Nazi "medicine" (the qualification is deliberate, as the Nazis' "medicine" and "experiments" were neither; they were bestial and torturous, ethically and morally bankrupt). The book should occupy a place on the shelf....Murderous Medicine forces us to remember, and hopefully to reflect....Today's headlines and newscasts remind us that we still have much to remember and learn. That is why this book is important. We are all responsible.'-JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association, "[T]hose who continue to ponder Nazi medical atrocities and want to reflect on the moral failures of Nazi doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and humanitarian organizations will find this book useful." JCI The Journal of Clinical Investigation, "The case that the Third Reich engaged in biological warfare using typhus as an ethnic cleansing agent against Jews, gypsies, and Slavs is carefully constructed and fully documented here. Typhus can assume epidemic proportions when living conditions are unsanitary and nutrition is inadequate. Baumslag demonstrates that Nazi Germany deliberately sought to create environments that would engender typhus in the ethnic communities slated for liquidation, and then transported the lice-ridden inhabitants to extermination camps as a public health necessity. That contemporary medicine and public health measures were available to prevent typhus is attested to by the fact that in WW II only 104 cases of typhus were reported in all the Allied armed forces. In contrast, at least 1.5 million prisoners died of typhus as a direct consequence of murder, malpractice, or deliberate negligence by German doctors. Through silence, interest in profit taking, and desire to engage in human experimentation, the International Red Cross, the German pharmaceutical industry, and the German medical establishment, respectively, collaborated with Hitler's Final Solutionâ€¦.Recommended. All academic libraries." - Choice, "ÝT¨hose who continue to ponder Nazi medical atrocities and want to reflect on the moral failures of Nazi doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and humanitarian organizations will find this book useful."-JCI The Journal of Clinical Investigation, "Baumslag documents the complicity by German and Austrian doctors in human experiments and genocide through the exploration of typhus and biological warfare." SciTech Book News, "Baumslag explores in impressive detail how typhus was characterised by Nazis as a Jewish plague." The Lancet, "Murderous Medicine is thorough, profusely and admirably illustrated and tackles the medical issues clearly." The Jerusalem Post, "Baumslag provides useful background information that helps provide the context within which the Nazi regime justified its despicable policies. Thus, Murderous Medicine provides a description of how anti-Semitism influenced the organization and delivery of public health and medical care in the ghettoes of Eastern Europe. It also describes some of the processes by which the Nazi doctors made their decisions to conduct human experiments....The extensive documentation will be helpful to students interested in expanding their knowledge of what must be the worst example of human depravity on record." American Journal of Epidemiology, "Baumslag's book is an impassioned plea for her fellow physicians to remain committed to the traditional medical ethics of the Hippocratic Oath. By exposing the immorality and inhumanity of Nazi doctors, the courageous resistance and dedication of Jewish doctors and the cowardly behavior of the International Red Cross, she hopes to keep alive the memory of an atrocity that we dare not repeat." - H-German, "In Murderous Medicine Naomi Baumslag documents the complicity of Nazi doctors and pharmaceutical companies in murderous medical experiments related to epidemic typhus to further Jewish genocideâ€¦.Baumslag argues that doctors pressured Nazi officials to proceed swiftly to quarantine and ghettoization to further the eradication of the disease - not typhus, but the Jews themselves. Typhus prevention rituals, including shaving and gassing, were used under the subterfuge of providing health care. Several million Jews were murdered as a direct consequence. Underlining the point that the goal was to kill Jews, she notes, with all their barbaric and unethical experiments the German researchers were unable to control typhus and get rid of lice. Jews were left in a diseased environment and doomed to die. It is an important story, and one well worth documenting." - Journal of Clinical Medicine

Dewey Edition22

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal174.2/8

Table Of ContentIllustrations Foreword by E.D. Pellegrino, M.D. Acknowledgments Introduction Typhus: War, Lice, and Disinfection Decline of German Medicine: From Euthanasia to Murder Jewish Doctors Struggle to Conceal Typhus and Save Lives Pharmaceutical Companies, Typhus Vaccines, Drugs, Doctors and Inhuman Experiments The Red Cross Fails its Humanitarian Vision Germ Warfare: From Bodies to Bombs Appendix 1: Hippocratic Oath--Modern Version Appendix 2: Draft Revision Hippocratic Oath Appendix 3: Experimental Transmission of Typhus Exanthematicus by the Body Louse Appendix 4: Secret Communication from Privy Council's Office, Whitehall, Re: Professor Buxton's Lice Proofing Belt Appendix 5: September 1943 Invoice from Pasteur Institute to a Military Commandant for Vaccine Appendix 6: World Medical Association Declaration of Tokyo (1975) Appendix 7: Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field. Geneva, August 22, 1864 Appendix 8: Letter from George Vincent to Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. August 9 1921 Appendix 9: Declaration of Geneva (1995) Appendix 10: Simon Wiesenthal Center Condemns IRC Defense of Holocaust Silence (1988) Appendix 11: Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (1927) Appendix 12: Circular of the Minister of the Interior of the German Reich Concerning Guidelines for Innovative Therapy and Human Experimentation (1931) Resources Index

SynopsisMore 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, would use the disease as a form of biological warfare against Jews, Slavs, and gypsies. Jewish hospitals in ghettos would be burned--along with patients and staff--if typhus was present. In camps, even suspected typhus cases would be killed in the gas chambers or through intracardiac injections, along with their circle of associates. Typhus vaccine would be tested on prisoners deliberately infected with typhus. Only a handful of doctors would ever be prosecuted for their crimes., 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., 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, would use the disease as a form of biological warfare against Jews, Slavs, and gypsies.

LC Classification NumberR853