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Sabine Hildebrandt, “The Anatomy of Murder: Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich” (Berghahn, 2017) (2020)

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Of the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received relatively little attention from historians. While politics and racial laws drove many anatomists from the profession, most who remained joined the Nazi party, and some helped to develop the scientific basis for its racialist dogma. As Sabine Hildebrandt reveals in The Anatomy of Murder: Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich (Berghahn, 2017), however, their complicity with the Nazi state went beyond the merely ideological. They progressed through gradual stages of ethical transgression, turning increasingly to victims of the regime for body procurement, as the traditional model of working with bodies of the deceased gave way, in some cases, to a new paradigm of experimentation with the “future dead.”

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Authors & Contributors
Hildebrandt, Sabine
Burkholder, Zoe
Czech, Herwig
Ehret, Ulrike
Evans, Andrew David
Frosh, Stephen
Journals
Acta Historica Leopoldina
European History Quarterly
Gesnerus
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Medizinhistorisches Journal
Publishers
Palgrave Macmillan
University of Nebraska Press
Cambridge University Press
New York University
Berghahn Books
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
National Socialism
Racism
Science and race
Science and ethics
Medicine and ethics
Eugenics
People
Boas, Franz
Alexander, Leo
Birkmayer, Walther
Freud, Sigmund
Haeckel, Ernst
Hitler, Adolf
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Places
Germany
United States
Austria
Great Britain
Nuremberg (Germany)
Institutions
American Museum of Natural History, New York
Columbia University
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