Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: An exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, S W Washington, DC, 20024-2126, USA, until 16 October 2005 www.ushmm.org/deadlymedicine/ Rating: ![Graphic][1] ![Graphic][2] B etween 1939 and 1945 more than 200 000 “incurable” patients in Germany were murdered under strict medical supervision. Among these were at least 5000 children—disabled boys and girls who had been singled out for euthanasia in state hospitals by a panel of expert physicians. How did scientists and doctors come to join ideologues and politicians in such a heinous crime? This major exhibition tells the story. The show begins with something right out of Gunther von Hagens' “Körperwelten” or “Body Worlds” (see BMJ 2001;323: 698)—a full size anatomical model of a transparent man, his arms outstretched and head tilted back in rapture. A central element in Nazi public health campaigns, the Glass … [1]: /embed/inline-graphic-1.gif [2]: /embed/inline-graphic-2.gif
Source: BMJ
Author: Dan Engber
Language: English
Topic: Medical History and Research
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2076061203