Genetics after Auschwitz

Müller-Hill, Benno, 1933-2018
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Title Genetics after Auschwitz.
Host Item Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2,1 (1987) 3-20
Description Protests against the refusal of present-day German geneticists and other scientists to examine the use of science (e.g. genetics, anthropology, psychiatry) in Nazi programs, such as medical experiments and the racially-based murder of Jews, Gypsies, and the mentally handicapped. Shows that the methods and results of Nazi science were not questioned by colleagues of the scientists, and they retained or quickly regained their academic positions. The scientific method itself, which treats others as objects and excludes values, may lead to the destruction of the object or patient, and should be feared. Nevertheless, science itself should not be rejected, despite its destructive potential. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Revised and translated from the German (Die Wissenschaften und der Holocaust).
Language English
National Library system number 990000085270705171
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