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Home / Prisoner Doctors, Ethics, and the Navigation of an Impossible Reality

Prisoner Doctors, Ethics, and the Navigation of an Impossible Reality

by Rachel Karasenty Saltoun (Witnessing Auschwitz 2019)

Through the court case presented in Hill and William’s Auschwitz in England, this paper explores and analyzes the role of prisoner doctors within Auschwitz-Birkenau and the altered states of ethics, morality, and choice that existed in the concentration camps.

Related topics: #MappingMedicine #UsageMedicine

Prisoner Doctors, Ethics, and the Navigation of an Impossible Reality

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Public task financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland within the grant competition “Public Diplomacy 2021"
Auschwitz Academic Guide
Auschwitz: History, Place and People. An Academic Guide to the Camp Complex.
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Oświęcim 2021
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