Disability Studies and the Legacies of Eugenics

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Summer Institute Reading List:

Aly, Gotz. “Medicine Against the Useless” in C. Pross (ed.). Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994: 22-98.

Bauman, Zygmunt. Modernity and the Holocaust. Cornell: Cornell UP, 2000 [1981]. Chapter 1: “Sociology After the Holocaust.”

Biesold, Horst. Crying Hands: Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet UP. Chapter 9: “Euthanasia and Deaf Germans.”

Burleigh, Michael. The Third Reich: A New History. New York: Hill & Wang, 2000. Chapter 5: “Extinguishing the Ideas of Yesterday: Eugenics and Euthanasia.”

Friedlander, Henry. The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution. Chapel Hill: North Carolina UP, 1995. Chapter 5: “The Killing Centers” and Chapter 8: “The Handicapped Victims.”

Lifton, Robert Jay. The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide. New York; Basic Books, 2000 [1986]. Chapter 2: “Euthanasia: Direct Medical Killing” and Chapter 4: “Wild Euthanasia: The Doctors Take Over”

McFarland-Icke, Bronwyn Rebekah. Nurses in Nazi Germany: Moral Choice in History. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1999. Chapter 8: “War, Mass Murder, and Moral Flight: Psychiatric Nursing, 1939-1945.”

Mueller-Hill, Benno. Murderous Science: Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies, and Others, Germany 1933-1945, Oxford: Oxford UP, 1988. Chapter 3: “From the Killing of Mental Patients to the Killing of Jews and Gypsies.”

Noakes, J. and G. Pridham (eds.). Nazism: A History of Documents and Eyewitness Accounts, 1919-1945, Vol. 2. New York: Schocken Books, 1988. Chapter 36: “The ‘Euthanasia’ Programme 1939-1945.”

Proctor, Robert. Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1988. Chapter 4: “The Sterilization Law.”

Weindling, Paul. Health, Race and German Politics Between National Unification and Nazism, 1870-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989 [1991]. Chapter 7: “The Sick Bed of Democracy, 1929-1932.”

 

Sharon L. Snyder, Ph. D.,
Director, "Legacies of Eugenics" Summer Institute, Einstein Forum
Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Ph. D. Program in Disability Studies
Department of Disability and Human Development
University of Illinois at Chicago (MC 626)
1640 W. Roosevelt Rd. #207
Chicago IL 60608-6904 U.S.A.
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