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The Attitude of German Émigré Doctors towards Medicine under National Socialism (2009)

Social History of Medicine
Volume: 22
Pages: 531--552

Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: Part of a special issue: Medical Refugees in Britain and the Wider World, 1930--1960
Language: English

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National Socialism Eugenics Science and ethics Emigration; immigration Medicine and politics Utopias 20th century, early Germany

The attitudes of émigré doctors provide some insight into whether Nazi medical atrocities were something peculiar and unique or whether they were an extreme consequence of widespread thinking and scientific concepts in medicine at the time. Doctors of the sexual reform movement and the political left partly welcomed the Nazi sterilisation law as an implementation of their eugenic ideas. Some labelled Nazi medicine plainly as charlatanism which is a protective claim by those who dream the dream of the genetic improvement of humanity. Others saw in it a cold-blooded utilitarianism, symbolising the triumph of a soldierly spartan life over the intricacies and agonies of the human soul. For those, the most important lessons of the past lay in protecting the chronically ill, the handicapped, the psychologically ill and the poor from radical utopias aimed at `making the national body healthy'.

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Description On the varying ideas about German eugenic policies by doctors of different political and ideological persuasions.

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Article Weindling, Paul (2009) Medical Refugees in Britain and the Wider World, 1930--1960: Introduction. Social History of Medicine (p. 451). unapi

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