Prescriptions for Death How Nazi Doctors Turned Science into Genocide

Name: Prescriptions for Death How Nazi Doctors Turned Science into Genocide
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ISBN: 9798233350221

Julia Wolbrook

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English

Serena Capuozzo
19 March 2026

20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; The Holocaust; Second World War; Medical ethics & professional conduct

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They wore white coats. They took oaths to heal. They believed in reason, progress, and the promise of science. And yet, in the shadowed corridors of the Third Reich, medicine became something else entirely, a weapon sharpened by ideology, wielded with clinical precision, and unleashed upon millions.

Prescriptions for Death is a chilling, deeply human account of how some of the most educated minds in modern Europe abandoned their calling and helped engineer one of history's greatest atrocities. This is not simply a story of evil men; it is the story of a system that transformed healers into executioners, of a profession that blurred the line between care and cruelty, and of a world that allowed it to happen.

Through vivid narrative and haunting testimony, this book takes readers inside the camps, the laboratories, and the minds of those who redefined medicine under Nazism. Here, diagnosis became selection. Treatment became experimentation. And the doctor's pen, the instrument of healing, became a tool of Death.

But this is also a story of those who endured: the prisoners who navigated impossible choices, the victims who survived unimaginable horrors, and the witnesses who carried these truths into the light.

Gripping, unsettling, and unflinchingly honest, Prescriptions for Death confronts a question that still echoes today: What happens when knowledge is divorced from ethics, and when those we trust most are given the power to decide who lives and who dies?

This is history at its most urgent. And its lessons are far from over.

By: Julia Wolbrook
Imprint: Serena Capuozzo
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 195g
ISBN: 9798233350221
Pages: 162
Publication Date: 19 March 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active