Life unworthy of life : racial phobia and mass murder in Hitler's Germany / James M. Glass.

  • Glass, James M.
Date:
[1997], ©1997
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

New York : BasicBooks, [1997], ©1997.

Physical description

xix, 252 pages ; 22 cm

Contributors

Notes

"A New Republic book".

Contents

The enthusiasts of death -- The indifference thesis and science as power -- Scientific practice and the assault on the Jewish body -- Psychotic preconditions to mass murder -- Documentary evidence against indifference -- The phobic group and the constructed enemy -- The uniqueness of the Holocaust -- Taboo, blood, and purification ritual -- Murderous groups as normal groups -- Psychosis and the moral position of enthusiasm -- The politics and process of hate.

Bibliographic information

Includes index and bibliography.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    KM.37.AA9
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ISBN

  • 0465098460