Doctors under Hitler

In this history of medicine and the medical profession in the Third Reich, the author examines the career patterns, educational training, professional organization, and political socialization of German physicians under Hitler.

  • OCLC #: 19264823
  • ISBN #:
    • 0807818429
    • 9780807818428
    • 0807848581
    • 9780807848586
  • Call #: R510.K37 1989
  • Personal Collection:
    • The James W. Wengert, M.D. Military Medical Collection.
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1989.
  • Physical Description: xii, 426 pages ; 24 cm
  • General Notes:
    • Includes index.
  • Contents:
    • 1: Organizational and socioeconomic setting
    • Supply, demand, and deployment of physicians
    • The Nazi reshaping of the professional organization
    • Medical specialization and income
    • Practicing medicine in the third Reich
    • 2: The challenge of the Nazi movement
    • Doctors in the Nazi party
    • The Nazi physicians' league and other party affiliates
    • Forms of resistance
    • The problem of motivation reconsidered
    • 3: The dilemma of women physicians
    • Demographic trends and tendencies
    • Marriage, motherhood, and militancy
    • University students
    • Medica politica
    • 4: Medical faculties in crisis
    • Infection of medical science with Nazi ideology
    • The mechanics and essence of faculty politicization
    • Anti-semitism, resistance, and the future of medical academia
    • 5: Students of medicine at the crossroads
    • The development of the medical discipline in peace and in war
    • Implications of politics and social class
    • The so-called Jewish question and the quality of medical instruction
    • 6: The persecution of Jewish physicians
    • The medicalization of the "Jewish question"
    • Precarious legality: till September 1935
    • Progressive disfranchisement: from the 1935 Nuremberg race laws to delicensure in September 1938
    • The end of the Jewish doctors
    • A chronicle of exile and a demographic reckoning
    • The crisis of physicians and medicine under Hitler.