Open AccessThe Anatomy of Murder: Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science During the Third Reich
Author(s) -
Sabine Hildebrandt
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of biocommunication
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1936-4563
pISSN - 0094-2499
DOI - 10.5210/jbc.v45i1.10828
Subject(s) - nazi germany , psychoanalysis , psychology , criminology , law , political science , politics
While politics and racial laws drove many anatomists from the profession, most who remained joined the Nazi party, and some helped to develop the scientific basis for its racialist dogma. As historian and anatomist Sabine Hildebrandt reveals, however, their complicity with the Nazi state went beyond the merely ideological.
Book cover image credit: The Anatomy of Murder: Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science During the Third Reich, Berghahn Books, New York, 2016. Used with permission.