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John W. Thompson
Paul Weindling
其他書名
Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust
出版University Rochester Press, 2010
主題Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Hispanic & LatinoBiography & Autobiography / Medical (incl. Patients)History / Military / GeneralMedical / DiseasesMedical / HistoryMedical / EthicsMedical / Physician & PatientMedical / Psychiatry / GeneralPolitical Science / Genocide & War Crimes
ISBN15804628989781580462891
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=OwiKTQ-XcwoC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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 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accounts of psychiatrists, students and patients who knew Thompson personally, war crimes prosecution records, and unpublished personal papers.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.