Edwin Mellen Pr.
Titles appearing in SciTech Book News — September 2007
The Anglo-American biomedical antecedents of Nazi crimes; an historical analysis of racism, nationalism, eugenics and genocide.
Baron, Jeremy Hugh.
Edwin Mellen Pr., ©2007 224 p. $109.95 HV6322
978-0-7734-5502-3
After a career of biomedical clinical and academic posts in London hospitals, Baron now holds honorary posts (New York U. and Imperial College, London) and devotes his attention to bioethics and social responsibility. Here he traces the origins or antecedents of 10 well documented crimes of the Nazi regime to the philosophy, biology, and medicine in Britain and the US primarily during the 19th century. For each, he begins with the Anglo-American origins and follows thinking and practices to the Nazis, then he considers how much of such practices were specifically Nazi and how much characteristically German. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
