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Essay / Nazi Medical Practices - 926
Is teleportation more than just an idea? Can one twin feel another's pain? Why is freezing bad? When Hitler rose to power in the early 1920s and late 1930s, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or more commonly known as the Nazi Party, attempted to answer many of these questions - and well even more. Although almost all of these experiments carried out by the Nazi Party were cruel and grotesque, the medical world learned many things about medical conditions, medical practices, and the capabilities of the human body. German scientists carried out three main types of experiments: pharmaceutical testing, war injury and disease experimentation, and racial experimentation. For pharmaceutical testing, the Nazis used several of their concentration camps, such as Sachsenhausen, Natzweiler, Neuengamme, Dachau and Buchenwald. test certain drugs on their Jewish prisoners. Different compounds were tested to see if they could fight contagious diseases like hepatitis, yellow fever, tuberculosis and typhus. For a particular malaria experiment, more than 1,000 Jewish inmates were infected with malaria-carrying mosquitoes or injected with malaria-infected blood. One prisoner, Vieweg, said: "Professor Dachfinney used me for malaria experiments at the Dachau concentration camp...On five occasions I was injected with five cubic centimeters of highly malaria blood." infectious. temperature. I was very exhausted and after the injection I received large doses of medicine, quinine, ephedrine and many others”; she went on to say that even many years later, she would still have bouts of malaria and have difficulty working (Spitz). In other tests, subjects were sent halfway through the article, there must be a valid reason behind the research (not just curiosity), and the research must have been successfully conducted on animals. first.Works CitedBachrach, Susan, PhD. “In the name of public health – Nazi racial hygiene.” The New England Journal of Medicine 351.5 (2004): 417-20. ProQuest. Internet. April 2, 2014. Haverkamp, Beth. "Reporting Nazi Medical Experiments: Evidence from Nuremberg." Social Education 59.6 (1995): 367. ProQuest. Internet. April 2, 2014. "Josef Mengele and the Medical Experiments." Josef Mengele and the Medical Experiments. Np, and Web 02 April 2014. “Nazi Medical Experiments: Background and Overview” Np, and Web 02 April 2014. Doctors from Hell: The Horrible Account of the Nazi Experiments. Boulder, CO: Sentient Publications, LLC, 2005. April 2.. 2014.