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John W. Thompson - Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Paperback)
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John W. Thompson - Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Paperback)
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
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Biography of a World War II-era physician whose work was a response
to the suffering of Holocaust victims, and whose investigations
laid the groundwork for the Nuremberg Medical Trials. 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 special
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personally, war crimes prosecution records, and unpublished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.
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