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The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide

The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide

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The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide

by Lifton, Robert Jay

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Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
ISBN 10
0465049044
ISBN 13
9780465049042
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New York: Basic Books. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0465049044 . Robert Lifton, a well-known psychiatrist, examines the central role that physicians played in Nazi Germany's "biomedical vision" that used mass murder of infants, children, men and women to further their goals of creating a "revitalized German people." Lifton also explores the "psychological conditions the promote the human potential for evil." Carefully researched this book contains an index and source notes in the rear. Original purple cloth publisher's covers with silver spine lettering. This is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings, no previous owner names and no bookplates. The dust jacket has a short tear at the top edge by the spine, else it is in similarly nice condition with no chips, no other tears, or markings. ; 8vo, 8"- 9" tall; 561 pages .

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Bookseller
Peninsula Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
21343
Title
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
Author
Lifton, Robert Jay
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Edition
First Edition; First Printing
ISBN 10
0465049044
ISBN 13
9780465049042
Publisher
Basic Books
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1986
Keywords
0465049044, Genocide, Holocaust, Jewish Holocaust, Nazi Germany, Germany, Medicine, Psychiatry, Medical Killing, Euthanasia

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