Hitler’s Female Physicians

Edzard Ernst

Edzard Ernst
Hitler’s Female Physicians [PDF ebook]
Women Doctors During the Third Reich and Their Crimes Against Humanity

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There have been many books about the doctors of the Third Reich and their atrocities. Most of these books neglect the contribution of women in the medical profession. In this book, they are the focus of attention.

The first section of the book explains the background of the Third Reich in general and medicine during this period in particular. It addresses the situation of female doctors and why there were relatively few of them.

It goes on to detail the forms of transgressio...

Table of Content

Part I Medicine’s Descent into Inhumanity.- Chapter 1.Medicine during the Third Reich.- Chapter 2. Female Doctors of the Third Reich.-Chapter 3. Race Hygiene.- Ch...

About the author

Edzard Ernst was born in Wiesbaden in 1948. He went to school in Germany and the USA and studied psychology and medicine at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. ...

About the author

Edzard Ernst was born in Wiesbaden in 1948. He went to school in Germany and the USA and studied psychology and medicine at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. In 1977 he was licensed as a doctor in Munich, where he also completed his doctoral thesis. He was a professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation (PMR) at the Hannover Medical School and a full professor of PMR at the University of Vienna. In 1993 he went to the University of Exeter to establish the world’s first chair in complementary medicine. Since 2012 he has been Emeritus Professor and now lives in Cambridge, UK, as well as in Brittany, France. Professor Ernst is/was the founder and editor-in-chief of three medical journals. He was/is a columnist for numerous publications (BMJ, GP, MMW, PJ, The Guardian, The Independent, Die Welt, L’Express, The Spectator, Audience, Skeptic Magazine, etc.). His work has been awarded 17 scientific prizes (most recently the John Maddox Prize in 2015 and the Ockham Award in 2017) andhe has received visiting professorships in Canada and the USA. Besides alternative medicine, his field of research is medicine under National Socialism, e.g.:· Dr Reiter: the ‘Third’ and ‘Fourth’ Reich – Pub Med (nih.gov)· Killing in the name of healing: the active role of the German medical profession during the Third Reich -Pub Med (nih.gov)· 50 years ago: the Nuremberg Doctors’ Tribunal. Part 1: The descent towards medicalised murder – Pub Med(nih.gov)· 50 years ago: the Nuremberg doctors’ tribunal. Part 2: Medical resistance during the Third Reich – Pub Med(nih.gov) · 50 years ago: the Nuremberg Doctors’ Tribunal. Part 3: The failure of coming to terms with the past -Pub Med (nih.gov)· 50 years ago: the Nuremberg Doctors’ Tribunal. Part 4: Nazi medicine’s relevance today – Pub Med(nih.gov)· A leading medical school seriously damaged: Vienna 1938 – Pub Med (nih.gov)Ernst has published >1000 Medline-listed papers (current H-index=143), >50 books translated into over a dozen languages, >100 book chapters, and a blog (edzardernst.com). He has given more than 700 invited talks worldwide and supervised more than 50 Ph D theses and dissertations. He was/is also an expert witness in numerous legal disputes.