Anglo-american Biomedical Antecedents of Nazi Crimes: An Historical Analysis of Racism, - Hardcover

Jeremy Hugh Baron

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773455027 ISBN 13: 9780773455023

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr, 2007

Synopsis

This book demonstrates the historical antecedents of the Nazi crimes of genocide, eugenics, sterilization and segregation as found in American, British, and pre-Nazi German thought, practice and policy.

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About the Author:

Dr. Jeremy Hugh Baron trained as a physician in Oxford, London and New York, leading to clinical and
academic positions in university hospitals in London. He is the author of numerous books and articles in his biomedical field. Since 1996, Dr. Baron has held honorary posts as professorial lecturer at Mount Sinai school of medicine of New York University, and senior lecturer at Imperial College, London. His current
interests include bioethics and social responsibility.

Review:

"The longstanding apparent need of humans to categorize each other has, with some frequency, reached expression in the construction of hierarchies of human worth. The justifications for such efforts at social definition have been, over the centuries, based in varying mixtures of mysticism, incomplete science or distortions of the science of the day, as well as statism, religious bias and other forces. The results more often than not have been used to justify a priori views, and have not infrequently resulted in persisting, often brutal, effects. This volume makes plain the grotesque extremes to which such trends were carried in twentieth-century Germany under National Socialism." - Jeremiah A. Barondess, M.D. President New York Academy of Medicine "This scholarly, yet accessible survey is a valuable contribution to the literature on the background to the Holocaust and other Nazi crimes. By exploring the racist and supremacist ideas in the scientific, philosophical and sociological thought of the past, Dr. Hugh Baron is able to illuminate the historical and intellectual setting of the murder of Europe's Jews. His work offers an antidote to bland historical studies which can lead the reader to believe that Nazi policies arose in an intellectual vacuum. Dr. Baron's work also highlights the long roots and tenacity of racist thinking in modern Europe - a timely reminder as the expanding European Union absorbs nations in which ethnic and religious hatreds remain causes for concern." - Dr. Ben Barkow Director The Wiener Library London"

About this edition

• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0773455027
• ISBN 13: 9780773455023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240