Transcription of In the Name of Public Health — Nazi Racial Hygiene
{{id}} {{{paragraph}}}
Example: bankruptcy
In the Name of Public Health — Nazi Racial Hygiene
N engl j med 351;5 29, 2004 417 PERSPECTIVE In democratic societies, the needs of Public healthsometimes require citizens to make sacrifices forthe greater good, but in Nazi Germany, national orpublic Health Volksgesundheit took completeprecedence over individual Health care. Physiciansand medically trained academics, many of whomwere proponents of Racial Hygiene , or eugenics,legitimized and helped to implement Nazi poli-cies aiming to cleanse German society of peopleviewed as biologic threats to the nation s measures began with the mass ster-ilization of the genetically diseased and endedwith the near-annihilation of European concept of Racial Hygiene had deep roots inGermany.
Senior, influential members of the first genera-tion of racial hygienists collaborated with the Nazi regime. Ernst Rüdin, director of the Munich psy-chiatric institute and internationally known for his ... tional unification and Nazism, 1870-1945. Cambridge, England:
Tags:
Information
Domain:
Source:
Link to this page:
Please notify us if you found a problem with this document: