Francis R. Nicosia is the Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of The Third Reich and the Palestine Question, and co-author of The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust.

”Brief and synthetic as the essays are, they will…be of most use to students or to those new to the field. However, they provide engaging reading for those with more in-depth knowledge too.”  ·  Journal of Modern History"Educators and students owe a debt of gratitude ... all of the articles in this anthology are readily accessible to the non-specialist without compromising the cutting-edge scholarship that informs them."  · ISIS"This in an engrossing book ... morally challenging to all physicians."   · Journal of the American Medical Association"... extraordinarily valuable essays combine perspectives from history, sociology, demography, and anthropology."  · Choice"Excellent introductory and concluding chapters summarize the explanatory factor that historians have so far singled out."  · History: Reviews of New Books"... excellent orientation for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as physicians and the general public ... All in all, this is a stimulating set of essays that deserves a wide readership."  · H-German

• AcknowledgementsChapter 1. The Ideology of Elimination: American and German Eugenics, 1900-1945G. AllenChapter 2. The Nazi Campaign Against Tobacco: Science in a Totalitarian StateR. ProctorChapter 3. Physicians as Killers in Nazi Germany: Hadamar, Treblinka, and AuschwitzH. FriedlanderChapter 4. A Criminal Profession in the Third Reich: Toward a Group Portrait of PhysiciansM. KaterChapter 5. Pathology of Memory: German Medical Science and the Crimes of the Third ReichW. SeidelmanChapter 6. The Legacy of Nazi Medicine in ContextM. BurleighAppendix: Speech given by the President of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science Hubert Markl on the occasion of the opening of the symposium entitled "Biomedical Sciences and Human Experimentation at Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes - The Auschwitz Connection"Notes on contributorsBibliographyIndex

Francis R. Nicosia is the Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of The Third Reich and the Palestine Question, and co-author of The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust.

”Brief and synthetic as the essays are, they will…be of most use to students or to those new to the field. However, they provide engaging reading for those with more in-depth knowledge too.”  ·  Journal of Modern History"Educators and students owe a debt of gratitude ... all of the articles in this anthology are readily accessible to the non-specialist without compromising the cutting-edge scholarship that informs them."  · ISIS"This in an engrossing book ... morally challenging to all physicians."   · Journal of the American Medical Association"... extraordinarily valuable essays combine perspectives from history, sociology, demography, and anthropology."  · Choice"Excellent introductory and concluding chapters summarize the explanatory factor that historians have so far singled out."  · History: Reviews of New Books"... excellent orientation for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as physicians and the general public ... All in all, this is a stimulating set of essays that deserves a wide readership."  · H-German

• AcknowledgementsChapter 1. The Ideology of Elimination: American and German Eugenics, 1900-1945G. AllenChapter 2. The Nazi Campaign Against Tobacco: Science in a Totalitarian StateR. ProctorChapter 3. Physicians as Killers in Nazi Germany: Hadamar, Treblinka, and AuschwitzH. FriedlanderChapter 4. A Criminal Profession in the Third Reich: Toward a Group Portrait of PhysiciansM. KaterChapter 5. Pathology of Memory: German Medical Science and the Crimes of the Third ReichW. SeidelmanChapter 6. The Legacy of Nazi Medicine in ContextM. BurleighAppendix: Speech given by the President of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science Hubert Markl on the occasion of the opening of the symposium entitled "Biomedical Sciences and Human Experimentation at Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes - The Auschwitz Connection"Notes on contributorsBibliographyIndex