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1 online resource |
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COVER; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF MAPS; LIST OF TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTE ON NAMES OF PLACES AND PERSONS; FOREWORD; I: MICROBES AND MIGRANTS; 1. Disease as Metamorphosis; i. Fevered Visions; ii. The Disappearance of a Disease; iii. International Controls; 2. Eradicating Parasites; i. Racial Therapies; ii. The Rise of Bacteriology; iii. Dissecting the Parasite; iv. Cleansing Bodies; v. The Disinfecting Fires; vi. The New Pesticide; 3. Cleansing Bodies, Defending Borders; i. Bastions of Bacteriology; ii. Cleansing Migrants |
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Iii. The Jewish Bacilli4. The First World War and Combating Lice; i. The Medical War; ii. Heroes as Victims; iii. Allied Strategies; iv. Gas Warfare; v. Sanitizing Lebensraum; II: CONTAINMENT; 5. Defending German Health: Technical Solutions; i. Sealing Borders; ii. The Zyklon Solution; iii. Zyklon Goes Global; iv. The Cremation Solution; 6. The Sanitary Iron Curtain: The Relief of Polish and Russian Typhus; i. Medical Militancy; ii. The Polish Bastion; iii. Containing Bolshevism; iv. ÎBrothers in NeedÌ: The Politics of Aid to Russia; iv. International Intervention |
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V. The European Health Conferencevi. The Famine as Holocaust; 7. German Soviet Medical Collaboration; i. The Seeds of Cooperation; ii. Lenin's Brain and Medical Cooperation; iii. The German-Russian Institute for Racial Research; iv. Geo-medicine and Racial History; v. The Moscow Bridgehead; 8. The Demise of Internationalism; i. Collecting Pathogens; ii. The Vaccine Network; iii. Nazifying International Health; III: ERADICATION; 9. From Geo-medicine to Genocide; i. Nazifying Geo-medicine; ii. Rekindling Russian Contacts; iii. Recasting the Historical Legacy |
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Iv. From Hygiene to Racial Extermination: Joachim Mrugowsky and the Hygiene Institute of the Waffen-SSv. Between Disinfection and the Holocaust; vi. The Cremation Movement between Internationalism and Nazism; 10. Delousing and the Holocaust; i. Epidemic Racism; ii. Resistance; iii. Operation 'Barbarossa'; iv. Death as 'Disinfection'; v. The Fatal Flame: Crematoria and Genocide; 11. 'Victory with Vaccines': Human Guinea-pigs and Louse-feeders; i. 'The War of the Laboratories'; ii. Crossing Fronts; iii. Allied Advances; iv. Conquest and Production |
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V. The Behring Institute Lemberg and the Louse-feedersvi. Human Experiments; vii. Survival and Resistance; 12. From Medical Research to Biological Warfare; i. DDT and Medical Entomology; ii. Biological Warfare; 13. Clinical Trials on Trial; i. Final Solutions; ii. The Survival of the Behringwerke; iii. Perpetrators as Survivors; iv. Clinical Trials on Trial; v. Eradicating Diseases, Eradicating Peoples; vi. Final Reflections; APPENDICES; I. Typhus Statistics in Germany, Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine; II. Typhus Vaccines and Sera, 1876-1944; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Summary |
Paul Weindling examines the history of German medicine in the first and second World War periods. He explores the German response to typhus and the manner in which de-lousing and gassing potential carriers became accepted medical practice |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Epidemics -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
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Bacteriology -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Genocide -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
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Public health -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
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Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne -- prevention & control
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Bacteriology -- history
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Disease Outbreaks -- history
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History, 19th Century
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History, 20th Century
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Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne -- history
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Atrocities
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Bacteriology
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Epidemics
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Genocide
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Public health
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Europe, Eastern https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005061 |
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Germany https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005858 |
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Eastern Europe
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191677373 |
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019167737X |
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1280538562 |
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9781280538568 |
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9780191542633 |
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0191542636 |
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