Doctors Under HitlerIn this history of medicine and the medical profession in the Third Reich, Michael Kater examines the career patterns, educational training, professional organization, and political socialization of German physicians under Hitler. His discussion ranges wi |
Contents
Organizational and Socioeconomic Setting | 12 |
2 The Nazi Reshaping of the Professional Organization | 19 |
3 Medical Specialization and Income | 25 |
4 Practicing Medicine in the Third Reich | 35 |
The Challenge of the Nazi Movement | 54 |
2 The Nazi Physicians League and Other Party Affiliates | 63 |
3 Forms of Resistance | 74 |
4 The Problem of Motivation Reconsidered | 84 |
Students of Medicine at the Crossroads | 150 |
2 Implications of Politics and Social Class | 156 |
3 The Socalled Jewish Question and the Quality of Medical Instruction | 169 |
The Persecution of Jewish Physicians | 177 |
Till September 1935 | 183 |
From the 1935 Nuremberg Race Laws to Delicensure in September 1938 | 192 |
4 The End of the Jewish Doctors | 200 |
5 A Chronicle of Exile and a Demographic Reckoning | 206 |
The Dilemma of Women Physicians | 89 |
2 Marriage Motherhood and Militancy | 92 |
3 University Students | 98 |
4 Medica Politica | 104 |
Medical Faculties in Crisis | 111 |
2 The Mechanics and Essence of Faculty Politicization | 126 |
3 AntiSemitism Resistance and the Future of Medical Academia | 139 |
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Page 5 - Thus it came about that not a single euthanasia or non-therapeutic sterilization was recommended or participated in by any Dutch physician. They had the foresight to resist before the first step was taken, and they acted unanimously and won out in the end. It is obvious that if the medical profession of a small nation under the conqueror's heel could resist so effectively the German medical profession could likewise have resisted had they not taken the fatal first step. It is the first seemingly...