John W. Thompson

Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Автор: Paul J Weindling

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Издател: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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John W. Thompson: Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust is the biography of a doctor whose rev...

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Автор

Paul J Weindling

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2013

страници

456

EAN

9781580464604

ISBN

1580464602

Enbook ID

01348507

Издател

Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Теглоt

704

Размери

224 x 150 x 39

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John W. Thompson: Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust is the biography of a doctor whose revulsion at Nazi human experiments prompted him to seek a humane basis for physician-patient relations. As a military scientific intelligence officer in 1945, Thompson was the first to name "medical war crimes" as a special category for prosecution. His investigations laid the groundwork for the Nuremberg medical trials and for the novel idea of "informed consent." Yet, Thompson has remained a little-known figure, despite his many scientific, literary, and religious connections. This book traces Thompson's life from his birth in Mexico, through his studies at Stanford, Edinburgh, and Harvard, and his service in the Canadian Air Force. It reconstructs his therapeutic work with Unesco in Germany and his time as a Civil Rights activist in New York, where he developed his concept of holistic medicine. Thompson was close to authors like Auden and Spender and inspirational religious figures like Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche. He drew on ideas of Freud, Jung, and Buber. The philosophical and religious dimensions of Thompson's response to Holocaust victims' suffering are key to this study, which cites accounts of psychiatrists, students and patients who knew Thompson personally, war crimes prosecution records, and unpublished personal papers. Paul Weindling is Wellcome Trust Research Professor at the Centre for Health, Medicine and Society: Past and Present, Oxford Brookes University, UK.

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