Herwig Czech
Biographic Data
| ID | 2006623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Herwig Czech |
| GIVEN NAMES | Herwig |
| FAMILY NAME | Czech |
| SIGNATURE | CZECH H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Medical University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9231-2762 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From scientific exploitation to individual memorialization
During the Third Reich, state‐sponsored violence was linked to scientific research on many levels. Prisoners were used as involuntary subjects for medical experiments, and body parts from victims were used in anatomy and neuropathology on a massive scale. In many cases, such specimens remained in scientific collections and were used until long after the war. International bioethics, for a long time, had little to say on the issue. Since the late …
Electroconvulsive Therapy in the Shadow of the Gas Chambers
Six years after it was first introduced into psychiatry in 1938, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) became the subject of criminal human experiments in Nazi Germany. In 1944, at the Auschwitz III / Monowitz camp hospital, the Polish Jewish prisoner psychiatrist Zenon Drohocki started experimental treatments on prisoners with an ECT device that he had constructed himself. According to eyewitnesses, Drohocki's intention to treat mentally unstable pris…
Mass killing under the guise of ECT
Following its inception, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), rapidly spread all over the world, including Nazi Germany. Paradoxically, at the same time, the euthanasia programme was started in Germany: the extermination of people with intellectual disabilities and severe psychiatric disorders. In Lower Austria, Dr Emil Gelny, who had been granted a specialist qualification in psychiatry after three months of clinical training, took control of two ps…
Venereal Disease, Prostitution, and the Control of Sexuality in World War II Vienna
The Nazi drive for racial order led to the implementation of an authoritarian public health system which systematically subordinated the rights of the individual to the preventive protection of the Volksgemeinschaft . This article focuses on the example of Vienna in order to address the history of venereal disease control, public health politics towards prostitution and medical persecution of socially undesirable behavior under the influence of t…
Blood and Homeland
The history of eugenics and racial nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe is a neglected topic of analysis in contemporary scholarship. The 20 essays in this volume, written by distinguished scholars of eugenics and fascism alongside a new generation of scholars, excavate the hitherto unknown eugenics movements in Central and Southeast Europe, including Austria and Germany. Eugenics and racial nationalism are topics that have constantly been…
Santé publique, hygiène raciale et eugénisme sous le Troisième Reich
The paper deals with the implementation of eugenic and racist practices in Public Health and Welfare domain. In this process, the Public Health offices played a vital and widely underestimated role, after they had been completely reorganized for this purpose. Vienna is a very instructive example, since its specific situation made the city a top priority on the agenda of Nazi racial politics. This can be seen in a broad range of fields, to mention…
Venereal Disease, Prostitution, and the Control of Sexuality in World War II Vienna
The Nazi drive for racial order led to the implementation of an authoritarian public health system which systematically subordinated the rights of the individual to the preventive protection of the Volksgemeinschaft . This article focuses on the example of Vienna in order to address the history of venereal disease control, public health politics towards prostitution and medical persecution of socially undesirable behavior under the influence of t…
Santé publique, hygiène raciale et eugénisme sous le Troisième Reich
The paper deals with the implementation of eugenic and racist practices in Public Health and Welfare domain. In this process, the Public Health offices played a vital and widely underestimated role, after they had been completely reorganized for this purpose. Vienna is a very instructive example, since its specific situation made the city a top priority on the agenda of Nazi racial politics. This can be seen in a broad range of fields, to mention…
Blood and Homeland
The history of eugenics and racial nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe is a neglected topic of analysis in contemporary scholarship. The 20 essays in this volume, written by distinguished scholars of eugenics and fascism alongside a new generation of scholars, excavate the hitherto unknown eugenics movements in Central and Southeast Europe, including Austria and Germany. Eugenics and racial nationalism are topics that have constantly been…
Venereal Disease, Prostitution, and the Control of Sexuality in World War II Vienna
The Nazi drive for racial order led to the implementation of an authoritarian public health system which systematically subordinated the rights of the individual to the preventive protection of the Volksgemeinschaft . This article focuses on the example of Vienna in order to address the history of venereal disease control, public health politics towards prostitution and medical persecution of socially undesirable behavior under the influence of t…
Mass killing under the guise of ECT
Following its inception, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), rapidly spread all over the world, including Nazi Germany. Paradoxically, at the same time, the euthanasia programme was started in Germany: the extermination of people with intellectual disabilities and severe psychiatric disorders. In Lower Austria, Dr Emil Gelny, who had been granted a specialist qualification in psychiatry after three months of clinical training, took control of two ps…
Electroconvulsive Therapy in the Shadow of the Gas Chambers
Six years after it was first introduced into psychiatry in 1938, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) became the subject of criminal human experiments in Nazi Germany. In 1944, at the Auschwitz III / Monowitz camp hospital, the Polish Jewish prisoner psychiatrist Zenon Drohocki started experimental treatments on prisoners with an ECT device that he had constructed himself. According to eyewitnesses, Drohocki's intention to treat mentally unstable pris…
From scientific exploitation to individual memorialization
During the Third Reich, state‐sponsored violence was linked to scientific research on many levels. Prisoners were used as involuntary subjects for medical experiments, and body parts from victims were used in anatomy and neuropathology on a massive scale. In many cases, such specimens remained in scientific collections and were used until long after the war. International bioethics, for a long time, had little to say on the issue. Since the late …
Law (5 works) · Medical History and Research (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Nazism (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Eugenics (3 works) · European history and politics (3 works)