The doctors of Death (Translated)

The doctors of Death (Translated)
Author: Philippe Aziz
Publisher: David De Angelis
Total Pages: 868
Release: 2024-01-10
Genre: History
ISBN:

Those who don't know history are condemned to repeat it. More than seventy years after the end of the Second World War, reading this book has never been more important. The Doctors of Death is a historical document about the horrors of Nazi medicine during the Second World War. From the social and ideological context that allowed the role of the doctor to be utterly corrupted, to those responsible on the ground for the most heinous acts, this is a work based on the testimonies of survivors, the confessions of SS doctors and thousands of documents that the Nazis were unable to destroy before their final defeat. Thousands of children, disabled people, homosexuals, gypsies, Jews and even dissident Germans, prisoners of an ideology that denied them their human condition, were subjected to atrocious medical experiments with the aim of annihilating inferior races or helping the war effort. It was the height of the Third Reich's cruelty, a scientific delirium that shocks and disgusts. And it must be read so that it is never forgotten.

The Body in Theory

The Body in Theory
Author: Becky R. McLaughlin
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2021-08-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1476678553

The body has always had the potential to unsettle us with its strange exigencies and suppurations, its demands and desires, and thus throughout the ages, it has continued to be a subject of interest and obsession. This collection of twelve peer-reviewed essays on Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault interrogates the body in all of its beauty...and with all of its blights and blemishes. Written by a diverse body of scholars--art historians, cultural theorists, English professors, philosophers, psychoanalysts, and sociologists from North America and Europe--these essays bring into conversation two intellectual giants frequently seen as antagonists, and thus rarely seen together. Topics covered include: the intersections of Foucault and Lacan and how they bring to light new thoughts on the senses, the self-destructive body, ableism and disability in Guillermo del Toro's film The Shape of Water, body image and the ego, selfie-culture, and metamorphosis in Ottessa Moshfegh's novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation, among others.

Membranes

Membranes
Author: Laura Otis
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2000-12-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780801865275

Defying the traditional boundary between science and the humanities, she concludes by proposing a notion of identity based on relations and connections.