Murder by Doctor's Orders. How the Best Intentions of Psychiatry Turned into a Nazi Program of Destruction: From Pinel's 'Moral Treatment' to Sonnenstein's Gas Chambers
'Murder by Doctor's Orders' is a book that forces a new look at psychiatry, the mind, and the very concept of 'normality'. It is not just a historical investigation or a personal memoir. It is a bold attempt to connect a...
tragic past with a troubling present to show: how we treat people who think differently is a key test of humanity. Suzanna Paola Antonetta reveals to the reader pages of history that are preferred to be forgotten: – how eugenic ideas, born in 19th-century university laboratories, transformed into state policy of 'cleansing' society; – how the first gas chambers of the 'T-4' program—prototype of future death camps—were built on the basis of psychiatric hospitals; – how the doctrines of Emil Kraepelin, 'the father of modern psychiatry', subtly shaped approaches still used today; – how the fear of otherness was turned into a scientific norm and diagnoses into social control. It is important to read this to see: many ideas from the past continue to live within modern medicine.
Series: Dark Archives. Books on Terrible Experiments and Practices on Humans
Age restrictions: 18+
Year of publication: 2026
ISBN: 9785042288548
Number of pages: 512
Size: 225х150х29 mm
Cover type: hard
Weight: 628 g
ID: 1734493
'Murder by Doctor's Orders' is a book that forces a new look at psychiatry, the mind, and the very concept of 'normality'. It is not just a historical investigation or a personal memoir. It is a bold attempt to connect a tragic past with a troubling present to show: how we treat people who think differently is a key test of humanity. Suzanna Paola Antonetta reveals to the reader pages of history that are preferred to be forgotten: – how eugenic ideas, born in 19th-century university laboratories, transformed into state policy of 'cleansing' society; – how the first gas chambers of the 'T-4' program—prototype of future death camps—were built on the basis of psychiatric hospitals; – how the doctrines of Emil Kraepelin, 'the father of modern psychiatry', subtly shaped approaches still used today; – how the fear of otherness was turned into a scientific norm and diagnoses into social control. It is important to read this to see: many ideas from the past continue to live within modern medicine.
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