Recognizing the Past in the Present

Sabine Hildebrandt is Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and serves as an anatomy educator at Harvard Medical School. She is the author of The Anatomy of Murder: Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich (Berghahn, 2016).

“This collection of scholarly papers illustrates the ongoing, unfinished nature of historical research on the Holocaust and medicine, broadly defined…This sobering book is important reading for anyone interested in Jewish or medical history or in the impact of values, ideology, and ethics on scientific practice…Highly Recommended.” • Choice“This volume offers new research and insights on a range of issues not often covered in the extant historical literature. Its mix of topics and perspectives is a particular virtue, ranging from the history of medicine to Jewish religious practice, gender, biographical and institutional studies, and the 'postwar continuities and legacies’ that are a particular emphasis and strength of the volume.” • Geoffrey Cocks, Professor Emeritus of History at Albion College

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsForewordWilliam E. SeidelmanIntroduction to the Volume: Recognizing the Past in the PresentSabine Hildebrandt, Miriam Offer, and Michael A. GrodinPart I: The PastChapter 1. Non-Mechanistic Explanatory Styles in Interwar German Racial Theory: A Comparison of Hans F. K. Günther and Ludwig Ferdinand ClaußAmit VarshizkyChapter 2. From “Racial Surveys” to Medical Experiments in Prisoner of War CampsMargit BernerChapter 3. "Der Doktor":  The Writings of Mordechai Lensky During the Interwar PeriodMiriam OfferChapter 4. Rabbinic Responsa During the Holocaust: The Life-for-Life ProblemJohnathan I. Kelly, Erin L. Miller, Rabbi Joseph Polak, Robert Kirschner, and Michael A. GrodinChapter 5. Un(B)earable: Pregnant Bodies and Obstetrical Genocide‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬Annette Finley-CroswhiteChapter 6. “Complete Mastery of the Subject”: The Connection between Forced Sterilization and Gynecological Fertility Research in National SocialismGabriele CzarnowskiChapter 7. Deference, Pragmatism, Ideology: The Medical Student Kurt Gerstein and the Predicament of Ethical Conduct under National SocialismMathias SchützChapter 8. Ludwig Stumpfegger (1910–1945): A Career at the Interface of Hitler, Himmler and Ravensbrück Concentration CampStephanie Kaiser and Mathias SchmidtChapter 9. Between Participation in National Socialist Medicine and Everyday Administrative Action: On the Economic Argument of the Psychiatric Planning Commission (1941–1945)Felicitas SöhnerChapter 10. Dentists in National Socialist (Nazi) Germany: A Fragmented ProfessionMatthis KrischelChapter 11. Only Following Orders? Aviation Medicine in Nazi GermanyAlexander von LünenChapter 12. Blood and Bones from Auschwitz: The Mengele LinkPaul J. WeindlingPart II: The Present: Postwar Continuities, Legacies, and ReflectionsChapter 13. Renewed Trauma:  Abraham De La Penha’s Testimony against Dr Franz Lucas in the Frankfurt Auschwitz TrialAndrew WiselyChapter 14. “Schluss mit der Rassenschande!” From Separation to Extermination: The Fate of Jewish Mentally Ill Patients in Germany and Occupied Poland 1939–42Kamila UzarczykChapter 15. “Since she was in Auschwitz the patient feels that she is being persecuted”: Holocaust Survivors and Austrian Psychiatry after World War IIHerwig CzechChapter 16. “To Prevent Further Unfounded Aly Constructions”Götz AlyChapter 17. Baneful Medicine and a Radical Bioethics in Contemporary ArtAndrew WeinsteinChapter 18. The History of the Vienna ProtocolSabine Hildebrandt, Joseph A. Polak, Michael A. Grodin, and William E. SeidelmanConclusion: The Past in the Present and the FutureIndex