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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “paul weindling”
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  • The Social History of Occupational Health

    Edited by Paul Weindling ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Despite the immense literature on the social history of industrialization and workers’ political movements, there had been virtually no published work on the social history of health hazards and of work-related diseases. First published in 1985, The Social History of Occupational Health is the first to explore this neglected area from the perspective of social history.The chapters focus on several ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • From Clinic to Concentration Camp

    Reassessing Nazi Medical and Racial Research, 1933-1945

    Edited by Paul Weindling ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    Representing a new wave of research and analysis on Nazi human experiments and coerced research, the chapters in this volume deliberately break from a top-down history limited to concentration camp experiments under the control of Himmler and the SS. Instead the collection positions extreme experiments (where research subjects were taken to the point of death) within a far wider spectrum of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Medicalising borders

    Selection, containment and quarantine since 1800

    Edited by Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer, Paul Weindling ...
    Series series Rethinking Borders
    The research of pandemics, epidemics, and pathogens like COVID-19 reaches far beyond the scope of biomedicine. It is not only an objective for the health, political and social sciences, but epidemics and pandemics are a matter of geography: foci and vectors of communicable diseases continue to test the efficacy of medical control at state borders.This volume illuminates these issues from various ... Read more

    $77.79 USD

  • Victims and Survivors of Nazi Human Experiments

    Science and Suffering in the Holocaust

    by Paul Weindling ...
    While the coerced human experiments are notorious among all the atrocities under National Socialism, they have been marginalised by mainstream historians. This book seeks to remedy the marginalisation, and to place the experiments in the context of the broad history of National Socialism and the Holocaust.Paul Weindling bases this study on the reconstruction of a victim group through individual ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Healthcare in Private and Public from the Early Modern Period to 2000

    Edited by Paul Weindling ...
    A key volume on a central aspect of the history of medicine and its social relations, The History of Healthcare in Public and Private examines how the modernisation of healthcare resulted in a wide variety of changing social arrangements in both public and private spheres.This book considers a comprehensive range of topics ranging from children's health, mental disorders and the influence of ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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    Told in short, gripping chapters, this is an unforgettable true story of survival. The author was featured in Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. At just 15, her mother, and brother were taken from their Romanian town to the Auschwitz-II/Birkenau concentration camp. When they arrived at Auschwitz, a soldier waved Elly to the right; her mother and brother to the ... Read more

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  • Bitter Freedom: Memoir of a Holocaust Survivor

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    A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive ... Read more

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  • Auschwitz

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