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, PAPERBACK, cover price $14.95, very good but with light vertical crease mark on spine. previous owner's name on front endpaper, another scholar in the field. PROCTOR, ROBERT N. Racial hygiene: medicine under the Nazis. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998, 2d printing number line ending in 2, viii, 414pp., . "Scholars exploring the history of science under the Nazis have generally concentrated on the Nazi destruction of science or the corruption of intellectual and liberal values. Racial Hygiene focuses on how scientists themselves participated in the construction of Nazi racial policy. Robert Proctor demonstrates that the common picture of a passive scientific community coerced into cooperation with the Nazis fails to grasp the reality of what actually happenednamely, that many of the political initiatives of the Nazis arose from within the scientific community, and that medical scientists actively designed and administered key elements of National Socialist policy.The book presents the most comprehensive account to date of German medical involvement in the sterilization and castration laws, the laws banning marriage between Jews and non-Jews, and the massive program to destroy "lives not worth living." The study traces attempts on the part of doctors to conceive of the "Jewish problem" as a "medical problem," and how medical journals openly discussed the need to find a "final solution" to Germany's Jewish and gypsy "problems."Proctor makes us aware that such thinking was not unique to Germany. The social Darwinism of the late nineteenth century in America and Europe gave rise to theories of racial hygiene that were embraced by enthusiasts of various nationalities in the hope of breeding a better, healthier, stronger race of people. Proctor also presents an account of the "organic" health movement that flourished under the Nazis, including campaigns to reduce smoking and drinking, and efforts to require bakeries to produce whole-grain bread. A separate chapter is devoted to the emergence of a resistance movement among doctors in the Association of Socialist Physicians - CONTENTS: The origins of racial hygiene -- "Neutral racism": the case of Fritz Lenz -- Political biology: doctors in the Nazi cause -- The Sterilization Law -- The control of women -- Anti-Semitism in the German medical community -- The destruction of "Lives not worth living" -- The "organic vision" of Nazi racial science -- Medical resistance: the Association of Socialist Physicians -- The politics of knowledge -- Epilogue: Postwar legacies. 9780674745780 ISBN 0674745787.…