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The Nazi Doctors

The Nazi Doctors

Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
April 1988
Trade Paperback · 576 Pages
$22.00 U.S. · $26.50 CAN
ISBN 9780465049059
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Description

A brilliant analysis and history of the crucial role that German doctors played in Nazi genocide.

About the Author

Robert Jay Lifton is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is also director of the Center on Violence and Human Survival. Dr. Lifton is the author of many books, including The Nazi Doctors and Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, which won the National Book Award.