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Baumslag, Naomi.

Murderous medicine : Nazi doctors, human experimentation, and Typhus / Naomi Baumslag ; foreword by E.D. Pellegtrino. - Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, c2005. - xxix, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Typhus, lice, war and disinfection -- Decline of German medicine: from euthanasia to murder, delousing and deception, radical treatment and extermination -- Jewish doctors face formidable challenges, struggle to conceal typhus and save lives -- SS doctors, pharmaceutical companies, vaccines, drugs and inhuman experimentation, pseudo science -- The Red Cross fails in its humanitarian vision -- The evolution of germ warfare: from bodies to germ bombs: putting science ahead of humanitarianism -- Appendices.

ISBN: 0275983129 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 2004028446

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Human experimentation in medicine--History--Germany--20th century.
Typhus fever--History--Germany--20th century.
Prisoners of war--Medical care--History--Germany--20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
National socialism--Moral and ethical aspects.

LC Class. No.: R853.H8 / B38 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 174.2/8