Jewish medical resistance in the Holocaust /
Faced with infectious diseases, starvation, lack of medicines, lack of clean water, and safe sewage, Jewish physicians practiced medicine under severe conditions in the ghettos and concentration camps of the Holocaust. Despite the odds against them, physicians managed to supply public health educati...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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New York ; Oxford :
Berghahn Books,
[2014]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword. Three Kinds of Medical Resistance / Joseph Polak
- Preface / Michael A. Grodin and Allan Nadler
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / Michael A. Grodin
- Part I. Hygiene and Disease Containment as Resistance
- 1. The Epidemiological Status and Health-Care Administration of the Jews before and during the Holocaust / Jacob Jay Lindenthal
- 2. Typhus Epidemic Containment as Resistance to Nazi Genocide / Naomi Baumslag and Barry M. Shmookler
- 3. Delousing and Resistance during the Holocaust / Paul Weindling
- Part II. Organized Health Care in the Ghettos
- 4. Courage under Siege: Starvation, Disease, and Death in the Warsaw Ghetto / Charles G. Roland
- 5. Jewish Medical Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto / Myron Winick
- 6. Health Care in the Vilna Ghetto / Solon Beinfeld
- 7. The Jewish Hospital in the Vilna Ghetto / Alexander Sedlis
- 8. The Establishment of a Public Health Service in the Vilna Ghetto / Steven P. Sedlis
- 9. Medicine in the Kovno Ghetto / Jack Brauns
- 10. Medicine in the Shavli Ghetto: In Light of the Diary of Dr. Aaron Pik / Miriam Offer
- 11. The Nursing School in the Warsaw Ghetto / Aleksander Blum
- 12. A Tribute to an Old-Fashioned Pharmacist / Lily Mazur Margules
- Part III. Medicine in the Camps
- 13. Jewish Medical Resistance in Block 10, Auschwitz / Claude Romney
- 14. Greek Jews in Auschwitz: Doctors and Victims / Yitzchak Kerem
- 15. The Kinderheim of Bergen-Belsen / Diane Plotkin
- 16. Memoirs of Heroic Deeds by Jewish Medical Personnel in the Camps / Isak Arbus
- 17. Felix Bachmann's Medical Memoir of Terezin Concentration Camp / Oliver B. Pollak
- Part IV. Wartime Activities and Other Areas
- 18. Doctors Saving Jews in Dniepropetrovsk during the Nazi Occupation / Alexander Bielostotzki and Arkady Bielostotzki
- 19. Crimean Doctors: Victims of Holocaust and Heroes of Resistance / Gitel Gubenko
- 20. Jewish Medics in the Soviet Partisan Movement in the Ukraine / Ster Elisavetski
- Afterword. The Ethical and Human Dimension of Jewish Medical Resistance during the Holocaust / Yulian Rafes
- Photos
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Glossary
- Selected Bibliography
- Index.