Author: ARTHUR ALLEN
Title: The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl. How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
Description: Norton. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 386. 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. ISBN: 9780393081015. Cond./Kwaliteit: Ramsj.
Keywords: 9780393081015
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Title: The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl. How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
Description: Norton. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 386. 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. ISBN: 9780393081015. Cond./Kwaliteit: Ramsj.
Keywords: 9780393081015
Price: EUR 12.95 = appr. US$ 14.07 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2050335
- Book number: 2050335
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