Asserts that German medical professionals (including biologists and anthropologists) supported Nazism earlier, in greater numbers, and more enthusiastically than did members of any other profession. In organizations, books, periodicals, university courses, and research institutes they developed and propagated the "science" of racial hygiene. Ch. 6 (pp. 131-176), "Antisemitism in the German Medical Community, " describes the gradual exclusion of Jews from medical practice between 1933-38. Medical professionals played an active part in planning and carrying out the Final Solution. Only a handful were tried; many others (e.g. Otmar von Verschuer, who commissioned Mengele's twin studies for his Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology) continued to occupy influential positions after the war. The German medical profession ignored the Nuremberg "doctors' trial" and the record of medical complicity in Nazi crimes. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

The origins of racial hygiene -- "Neutral racism": the case of Fritz Lenz -- Political biology: doctors in the Nazi cause -- The Sterilization Law -- The control of women -- Anti-Semitism in the German medical community -- The destruction of "Lives not worth living" -- The "organic vision" of Nazi racial science -- Medical resistance: the Association of Socialist Physicians -- The politics of knowledge -- Epilogue: Postwar legacies.