Recognizing the Past in the Present

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Foreword
William E. Seidelman

Introduction to the Volume: Recognizing the Past in the Present
Sabine Hildebrandt, Miriam Offer, and Michael A. Grodin

Part I: The Past

Chapter 1. Non-Mechanistic Explanatory Styles in Interwar German Racial Theory: A Comparison of Hans F. K. Günther and Ludwig Ferdinand Clauß
Amit Varshizky

Chapter 2. From "Racial Surveys" to Medical Experiments in Prisoner of War Camps
Margit Berner

Chapter 3. "Der Doktor": The Writings of Mordechai Lensky During the Interwar Period
Miriam Offer

Chapter 4. Rabbinic Responsa During the Holocaust: The Life-for-Life Problem
Johnathan I. Kelly, Erin L. Miller, Rabbi Joseph Polak, Robert Kirschner, and Michael A. Grodin

Chapter 5. Un(B)earable: Pregnant Bodies and Obstetrical Genocide¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿
Annette Finley-Croswhite

Chapter 6. "Complete Mastery of the Subject": The Connection between Forced Sterilization and Gynecological Fertility Research in National Socialism
Gabriele Czarnowski

Chapter 7. Deference, Pragmatism, Ideology: The Medical Student Kurt Gerstein and the Predicament of Ethical Conduct under National Socialism
Mathias Schütz

Chapter 8. Ludwig Stumpfegger (1910-1945): A Career at the Interface of Hitler, Himmler and Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
Stephanie Kaiser and Mathias Schmidt

Chapter 9. Between Participation in National Socialist Medicine and Everyday Administrative Action: On the Economic Argument of the Psychiatric Planning Commission (1941-1945)
Felicitas Söhner

Chapter 10. Dentists in National Socialist (Nazi) Germany: A Fragmented Profession
Matthis Krischel

Chapter 11. Only Following Orders? Aviation Medicine in Nazi Germany
Alexander von Lünen

Chapter 12. Blood and Bones from Auschwitz: The Mengele Link
Paul J. Weindling

Part II: The Present: Postwar Continuities, Legacies, and Reflections

Chapter 13. Renewed Trauma: Abraham De La Penha's Testimony against Dr Franz Lucas in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial
Andrew Wisely

Chapter 14. "Schluss mit der Rassenschande!" From Separation to Extermination: The Fate of Jewish Mentally Ill Patients in Germany and Occupied Poland 1939-42
Kamila Uzarczyk

Chapter 15. "Since she was in Auschwitz the patient feels that she is being persecuted": Holocaust Survivors and Austrian Psychiatry after World War II
Herwig Czech

Chapter 16. "To Prevent Further Unfounded Aly Constructions"
Götz Aly

Chapter 17. Baneful Medicine and a Radical Bioethics in Contemporary Art
Andrew Weinstein

Chapter 18. The History of the Vienna Protocol
Sabine Hildebrandt, Joseph A. Polak, Michael A. Grodin, and William E. Seidelman

Conclusion: The Past in the Present and the Future

Index