FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 354:1655 April 13, 2006 Number 15 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text PDF PDA Full Text Purchase this article Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited E-mail When Letters Appear

By Naomi Baumslag. 272 pp., illustrated. Westport, Conn., Praeger, 2005. $49.95. ISBN 0-275-98312-9.

During the final decade of the 20th century, several excellent accounts were written on the trio of topics of the Nazification of the medical profession in Germany from 1933 to 1945, human medical experimentation conducted in concentration camps, and the medical abuse of prisoners. This book addresses all three of these topics, with a specific emphasis on the Nazis' experimentation with typhus, from which some 1.5 million people died in concentration camps.

The subject resonates with the recently renewed national interest in infectious-disease epidemics and infectious agents in the context of biowarfare and biologic weapons. The possibility of using infectious-disease . . . [Full Text of this Article]

This article has been cited by other articles:

• Feldman, H. H. MD, Jacova, C. PhD, Robillard, A. MD, Garcia, A. MD PhD, Chow, T. MD, Borrie, M. MB ChB, Schipper, H. M. MD PhD, Blair, M. BSc, Kertesz, A. MD, Chertkow, H. MD (2008). Diagnosis and treatment of dementia: 2. Diagnosis. CMAJ 178: 825-836 [Abstract] [Full Text]