The Nazi War on CancerCollaboration in the Holocaust. Murderous and torturous medical experiments. The "euthanasia" of hundreds of thousands of people with mental or physical disabilities. Widespread sterilization of "the unfit." Nazi doctors committed these and countless other atrocities as part of Hitler's warped quest to create a German master race. Robert Proctor recently made the explosive discovery, however, that Nazi Germany was also decades ahead of other countries in promoting health reforms that we today regard as progressive and socially responsible. Most startling, Nazi scientists were the first to definitively link lung cancer and cigarette smoking. Proctor explores the controversial and troubling questions that such findings raise: Were the Nazis more complex morally than we thought? Can good science come from an evil regime? What might this reveal about health activism in our own society? Proctor argues that we must view Hitler's Germany more subtly than we have in the past. But he also concludes that the Nazis' forward-looking health activism ultimately came from the same twisted root as their medical crimes: the ideal of a sanitary racial utopia reserved exclusively for pure and healthy Germans. |
Contents
Huepers Secret | 13 |
TRIUMPHS OF THE INTELLECT | 15 |
THE NUMBER ONE ENEMY OF THE STATE | 20 |
ERWIN LIEK AND THE IDEOLOGY OF PREVENTION | 22 |
EARLY DETECTION AND MASS SCREENING | 27 |
The Gleichschaltung of German Cancer Research | 35 |
THE FATES OF JEWISH SCIENTISTS | 36 |
REGISTRIES AND MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE | 40 |
IDEOLOGY AND REALITY | 170 |
The Campaign against Tobacco | 173 |
EARLY OPPOSITION | 176 |
MAKING THE CANCER CONNECTION | 178 |
THE DOCTOR MOST HATED BY THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY | 183 |
NAZI MEDICAL MORALISM | 186 |
THE FORGOTTEN FATHER OF EXPERIMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY | 191 |
MOVING INTO ACTION | 198 |
THE RHETORIC OF CANCER RESEARCH | 45 |
ROMANCING NATURE AND THE QUESTION OF CANCERS INCREASE | 51 |
Genetic and Racial Theories | 58 |
SELECTION AND STERILIZATION | 68 |
Occupational Carcinogenesis | 73 |
HEALTH AND WORK IN THE REICH | 74 |
XRAYS AND RADIATION MARTYRS | 83 |
RADIUM AND URANIUM | 93 |
ARSENIC CHROMIUM QUARTZ AND OTHER KINDS OF DUSTS | 102 |
THE FUNERAL DRESS OF KINGS ASBESTOS | 107 |
CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CANCERS | 114 |
The Nazi Diet | 120 |
RESISTING THE ARTIFICIAL LIFE | 124 |
MEAT VERSUS VEGETABLES | 126 |
THE FŪHRERS FOOD | 134 |
THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST ALCOHOL | 141 |
PERFORMANCEENHANCING FOODS AND DRUGS | 154 |
FOODS FOR FIGHTING CANCER | 160 |
BANNING BUTTER YELLOW | 165 |
KARL ASTELS INSTITUTE FOR TOBACCO HAZARDS RESEARCH | 206 |
GESUNDHEIT UBER ALLES | 217 |
REEMTSMAS FORBIDDEN FRUIT | 228 |
TOBACCOS COLLAPSE | 242 |
The Monstrous and the Prosaic | 248 |
THE SCIENCE QUESTION UNDER FASCISM | 249 |
COMPLICATING QUACKERY | 252 |
BlOWARFARE RESEARCH IN DlSGUISE | 258 |
ORGANIC MONUMENTALISM | 264 |
DID NAZI POLICY PREVENT SOME CANCERS? | 267 |
PLAYING THE NAZI CARD | 270 |
Is NAZI CANCER RESEARCH TAINTED? | 271 |
THE FLIP SIDE OF FASCISM | 277 |
NOTES | 279 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 351 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 365 |
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