Murder by Doctor's Order. How Psychiatry's Best Intentions Turned into a Nazi Extermination Program: From Pinel's "Moral Treatment" to Gassing...
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Murder by Doctor's Order. How Psychiatry's Best Intentions Turned into a Nazi Extermination Program: From Pinel's "Moral Treatment" to Gassing...
14.99 €
"Murder by Order" is a book that challenges us to rethink psychiatry, the mind, and the very concept of "normality."
This is not simply a historical investigation or a personal memoir. It is a bold attempt to connect the tragic past and the troubling present to show that how we treat people who think differently is the key test of humanity.
Suzanne Paola Antonetta reveals to the reader pages of history that are often forgotten:
- how the ideas of eugenics, born in 19th-century university laboratories, evolved into a state policy of "purifying" society;
- how the first gas chambers of the T-4 program, the prototypes of future death camps, were built on the premises of psychiatric hospitals;
- how the doctrines of Emil Kraepelin, the "father of modern psychiatry," quietly shaped approaches that are still used today;
– how fear of otherness was transformed into a scientific norm, and diagnoses into social control.
It's important to read this to see how many ideas from the past continue to live on within modern medicine.
This is not simply a historical investigation or a personal memoir. It is a bold attempt to connect the tragic past and the troubling present to show that how we treat people who think differently is the key test of humanity.
Suzanne Paola Antonetta reveals to the reader pages of history that are often forgotten:
- how the ideas of eugenics, born in 19th-century university laboratories, evolved into a state policy of "purifying" society;
- how the first gas chambers of the T-4 program, the prototypes of future death camps, were built on the premises of psychiatric hospitals;
- how the doctrines of Emil Kraepelin, the "father of modern psychiatry," quietly shaped approaches that are still used today;
– how fear of otherness was transformed into a scientific norm, and diagnoses into social control.
It's important to read this to see how many ideas from the past continue to live on within modern medicine.
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- All books in the series Dark Archives: Books about horrific experiments and practices on humans