Racial Hygiene
Book description
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…
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This World War II book on Nazi racial "science" opened my eyes to the corruption of science to serve the nefarious purposes of Nazi racial policy.
For me, this book was deeply informative in a medical humanities sense. Robert Proctor has provided a service to readers and to the historical record by bringing this story to light with such a clear and careful rendering of the facts.
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