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Lädt ... The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis by Allen, Arthur (2014) Hardcovervon Arthur Allen
Werk-InformationenThe Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis von Arthur Allen
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. fascinating book, not for the faint of heart. Parts are set in the concentration camps and most is in Poland during the war years, so there is much that is disturbing. The science is interesting, the way they transmit the disease to the louses and the urine based vaccine particularly so. The questions of morality, what constituted collaboration, should a doctor produce a vaccine that is ineffective, intentionally, are thought provoking. Great read ( ) Meticulously researched, passionately argued piece of hidden history. I learned a lot but wish that the author had provided some aids for readers, such as an annotated list of the principal figures involved. There were MANY of them, and it made it difficult to reorient myself every time I picked the book up again. Still, well worth the time. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Few diseases are more gruesome than typhus. Transmitted by body lice, it afflicts the dispossessed--refugees, soldiers, and ghettoized peoples--causing hallucinations, terrible headaches, boiling fever, and often death. The disease plagued the German army on the Eastern Front and left the Reich desperate for a vaccine. For this they turned to the brilliant and eccentric Polish zoologist Rudolf Weigl.In the 1920s, Weigl had created the first typhus vaccine using a method as bold as it was dangerous for its use of living human subjects. The astonishing success of Weigl's techniques attracted the attention and admiration of the world--giving him cover during the Nazi's violent occupation of Lviv. His lab soon flourished as a hotbed of resistance. Weigl hired otherwise doomed mathematicians, writers, doctors, and other thinkers, protecting them from atrocity. The team engaged in a sabotage campaign by sending illegal doses of the vaccine into the Polish ghettos while shipping gallons of the weakened serum to the Wehrmacht.Among the scientists saved by Weigl, who was a Christian, was a gifted Jewish immunologist named Ludwik Fleck. Condemned to Buchenwald and pressured to re-create the typhus vaccine under the direction of a sadistic Nazi doctor, Erwin Ding-Schuler, Fleck had to make an awful choice between his scientific ideals or the truth of his conscience. In risking his life to carry out a dramatic subterfuge to vaccinate the camp's most endangered prisoners, Fleck performed an act of great heroism.Drawing on extensive research and interviews with survivors, Arthur Allen tells the harrowing story of two brave scientists--a Christian and a Jew-- who put their expertise to the best possible use, at the highest personal danger. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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