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ロバートリフトンの「The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing And The Psychology Of Genocide」をアマゾンでタダのような価格で購入。
かなり分厚い本だが、リフトンの英語は動画の講演でも分かるように、明快であり日本人にも分かりやすい。
127 人中、123人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
投稿者 Ruth Henriquez Lyon - (Amazon.com)
形式: ペーパーバック
This book explores the question of how doctors, who are sworn to do no harm, became the integral organizers and managers of the Nazi death camps. Through exhaustive interviews with these doctors, people who knew them, and camp survivors, Lifton arrives at more than just individual psychological profiles of these professional killers. He presents us rather with a dense, psychosocial exploration of the dynamics of state-organized terror, along with enough history to describe the milieu in which these dynamics evolved. (Many people will be surprised to discover that the eugenics movement, which fueled the Nazi terror, had a large following in the United States during the 1930's.) The book reads like a novel in parts (especially the chapter on Josef Mengele). However, I found the introduction one of the most interesting sections; in it Lifton describes the process he went through to gather and analyze his data. This included interviewing ex-Nazi doctors, who suspected or knew outright that Lifton himself is Jewish. Lifton's descriptions of the verbal dances he and these doctors did around the German/Jewish conflict are fascinating.....For obvious reasons this book is not an "easy read," despite the quality of the writing. It will literally give you bad dreams. But it serves to instruct us about demons which still inhabit the collective human psyche, demons which we fail to acknowledge only at our peril. For this reason, if no other, it demands our attention. 66 人中、62人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
投稿者 P. Bjel - (Amazon.com)
形式: ペーパーバック
In this reviewer's opinion, Lifton's book is the definitive work on the subject of Nazi doctors; in this book, he has pulled together more details and information about his subjects on a scale that has yet to be surpassed. From the origins of the Nazi "bio-medical vision" (his term) to "euthanasia," to the full-blown scale of the Final Solution, a clear-cut transition into mass murder and genocide is presented in light of a tremendous number of lives and times of Nazi perpetrators, whose betrayal of the Hippocratic Oath is shocking. Lifton's original research is in itself a work of tremendous value; he personally interviewed many former Nazi doctors, survivors that bore direct witness to their crimes, as well as the Jewish and non-Jewish doctors that became collaborators with their Nazi superiors. So many accounts of their lives and deeds abound within the pages of this book...their experiences speak for themselves to add to the growing portrait of the medical profession in light of Nazism. In this reviewer's opinion, Part III, which deals with the doctors in Auschwitz, is the most integral part of the book, with Chapter 16 being one of the most prominent chapters, as its subject, Dr. Josef Mengele, the infamous doctor that never ended up living and being caught for his insurmountable cruelty, is given a human face that cuts through all the years of myth, legend, and hype surrounding his career and medical experiments. There is one weak part of the book, evident in its sub-heading: "Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide." While it is incumbent that readers will judge for themselves the validity and integrity of psychoanalysis in history, this reviewer finds this an appropriate element suitable for another book. Psychoanalysis and history, in essence, should not be combined, as they themselves are two totally different areas not meant to be combined with the risk of considerable distortion and misunderstanding. Part IV of this book can be coined the Psycho-historical aspect of this work, as Freudian methods abound. Its psychoanalytical bearing notwithstanding, this book is absolutely riveting, tremendously exhaustive and interesting, and original. It is crucial to the understanding of the Nazi doctors that were trained (and sworn) to be healers, and who became killers and traitors of the most basic of human moral codes. Absolutely crucial to any understanding of Holocaust perpetrators and the driving force behind the genocide. 35 人中、34人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
投稿者 gfkat@aol.com - (Amazon.com)
形式: ペーパーバック
For somebody just interested in what went on in the "Nazi bio-medical vision" or the researcher, I highly recommend it. Robert J. Lifton gives a highly detailed account from survivors and even medical personnel that were present. His book steers clear of fabricated stories and really tries to underline the truth behind this tragedy. I bought this book 2-3 years ago, and I still cannot put it down. The true-life stories behind this book really leave an impression no one can deny. So like one reviewer on this book commented, I also must say if this is the only book you'll ever read on this subject, this is the one to read. 18 人中、18人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
投稿者 K. L Sadler - (Amazon.com)
形式: ペーパーバック Amazonで購入
When I read The Origins of Nazi Genocide, which came out in 1995, the author referred to this original book concerning the physicians and scientists who had exploited the 'situation' in Germany to their own ends. I had also come across references to this book in many, many professional papers...yet, made the stupid decision that I didn't need to read it. I finally decided I had to read this when my advisor in science education recommended it because he was using it in teaching bioethics to science teachers. Though Friedlander's book is excellent, and was my introduction to The Medical Holocaust (especially as concerned the disabled) Lifton's book goes much further and deals with the physician/scientists within the concentration camps as well as in the psychiatric institutions which became involved in the killing machinery of the Nazis. Lifton's book explores the rationalizations made by these men to take advantage of a situation to experiment on those who could not give informed consent. Though Lifton tends to make a few speculations concerning motives from his interviews with physicians who were not prosecuted or were absolved of their involvement in these camps...his speculations are on target (mostly) and he backs up his statements with the words of these doctors from letters and interviews with those people who had the most to do with them: the prisoner physicians forced to work in these environments not only to save their own lives, but the lives of so many others. Of course, more information is in this book concerning the atrocities. Sometimes, I had to put the book down and leave it for a while because the information is so horrendous. It is so beyond belief that so many physicians could rationalize the experimentation, using a statement I've grown to recognize in legal documents and even in newspapers in the U.S. ('for the good of society'). I just cringe now when I see this or sentences like this. Science should never replace the rights of the individuals. And scientists are never objective...they have the same prejudices and biases that society has and it permeates their work...to the point of biasing the information they find. My only complaint about Lifton's book is occasional repetition or dwelling on certain topics/agendas. Sometimes, it seemed as if I had just reread the same pages, but Lifton was trying to make a point in most of these cases, or make a case for what he was saying... The need to teach ethics in all fields of endeavors, including medicine and research science is all the more important today. If we don't, the work of Lifton and FRiedlander to remind the world of the horrors of The MEdical Holocaust will have been in vain. The slippery slope is growing with advanced technology, genomics, cloning, and stem cell use, without the accompanying legal protections. The Nuremberg Code, etched into the history of mankind in 1947, seems to have been forgotten. To remind your students of the need for morals and ethics within all fields, this book is a necessary addition for required reading. I will certainly make it required for those I work with.... Karen Sadler, Science Education, University of Pittsburgh 18 人中、18人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
投稿者 Jack - (Amazon.com)
形式: ペーパーバック
This is a fascinating look not only at what the Nazi doctors did during the reign of the Third Reich but also how they perceived what they were doing and the legislative precedents that culminated in the general acceptance of medicalised killing by many German doctors. The book is easy to read. Whilst it is a factual account, it still flows with the continuity of a novel making it hard to put down. Informative and fascinating. Well worth a read and makes you realise the importance of global medical ethical debate as its absence in pre-war Germany, most certainly contributed to the precedents that allowed legalised genocide. |
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オウムウォッチャーとして、元サマナのブログは非常に面白いです。
http://s.ameblo.jp/aiyokutensi/ ロシアツァーなど興味津々読ませてもらっています。 これから、本当のオウムの修行体系を公開してくれるということです。 楽しみです。 |
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'Going Clear,' Lawrence Wright's Book on Scientology
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/books/review/going-clear-lawrence-wrights-book-on-scientology.xml;jsessionid=0674F172484536C5F673E515BE4F6630?f=19 Illustration by Julien Pacaud, colagene.com; photograph by Chris Ware/Keystone Features - Getty Images 3 more images By MICHAEL KINSLEY Published: January 20, 2013 GOING CLEAR Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief By Lawrence Wright Illustrated. 430 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $28.95. That crunching sound you hear is Lawrence Wright bending over backward to be fair to Scientology. Every deceptive comparison with Mormonism and other religions is given a respectful hearing. Every ludicrous bit of church dogma is served up deadpan. This makes the book's indictment that much more powerful. Open almost any page at random. That tape of L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology's founder, that Wright quotes from?"It was a part of a lecture Hubbard gave in 1963, in which he talked about the between-lives period, when thetans are transported to Venus to have their memories erased." Oh, that period. Of course. How could I forget? We are all thetans, spirits, trapped temporarily in our current particular lives. Elsewhere, though, Hubbard says that when a thetan discovers that he is dead, he should report to a "'between-lives' area" on Mars for a "forgetter implant." Oh dear, oh dear. So what are poor thetans to do, where are they to go, when they find themselves between lives?Left to Venus or right to Mars?For sure, they can't stay here. "The planet Earth, formerly called Teegeeack, was part of a confederation of planets under the leadership of a despot ruler named Xenu," said Hubbard, who was a best-selling science fiction writer before he became the prophet of a new religion. To suppress a rebellion, Xenu tricked the confederations into coming in for fake income tax investigations. Billions of thetans were taken to Teegeeack (you remember: Earth), "where they were dropped into volcanoes and then blown up with hydrogen bombs." Suffice it to say I'm not hanging around Earth next time I'm between lives. Hubbard apparently could go on for hours - or pages -with this stuff. Wright informs us, as if it were just an oversight, that "Hubbard never really explained how he came by these revelations," but elsewhere he says they came to him at the dentist's office. Of the Borgia-like goings-on after Hubbard's death in 1986, Wright says cheerfully, "Every new religion faces an existential crisis following the death of its charismatic founder." He always refers to Scientology respectfully as "the church." But Wright's book, "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief," makes clear that Scientology is like no church on Earth (or, in all probability, Venus or Mars either). The closest institutional parallel would be the Communist Party in its heyday: the ruthless struggles for power, the show trials and forced confessions (often false); the paranoia (often justified); the determination to control its members' lives completely (the key difference, you will recall, between authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, according to the onetime American ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick); the maintenance of something close to prison camps where dissenters, would-be defectors and power-struggle rivals were incarcerated in deplorable conditions for years and punished if they tried to escape; what the book describes as mysterious deaths and disappearances; and so on. Except that while the American Communist Party, including a few na?ve Hollywood types, merely turned a blind eye to events happening in faraway Russia, Scientology - if Wright is to be believed, and I think he is - ran, and maybe still runs, a shadow totalitarian empire here in the United States, financed in part by huge contributions by Tom Cruise and others of the Hollywood aristocracy. "Na?ve" doesn't begin to describe the credulousness and sense of entitlement that has allowed actors, writers and directors to think they were helping themselves and the world by hanging around the Scientologists' "Celebrity Centre," taking "upper level" courses and gossiping about who was about to be labeled a "Suppressive Person" (bad guy). Wright's last book, "The Looming Tower," a history of Al Qaeda, won the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author of, among other books, a charmingly presumptuous premature autobiography, "In the New World," published in 1987. He belongs to a small cult of his own - an Austin-centered group of writers dedicated to preserving long-form narrative journalism. With this book, he's certainly paid his dues for a few years. Wright is well advised to |
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アメリカの問題カルトサイエントロジーについての、注目すべき本が出たようです。
ニューズウィークに紹介されています。 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/16/15-scientology-revelations-from-lawrence-wright-s-going-clear.html 以前、タイム誌は、カバーストーリーで、このカルトの破壊性を告発したのですが、未だにしぶとく生き残っています。 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/time-behar.html 早速、読者の感想がアマゾンにアップされています。 カルト研究者として、この本は、読みたいです。 Interesting, Important, Well Researched and Elegantly Presented January 17, 2013 By Bill Gallagher [from advance review copy] Imagine if you were reading a novel that included a character who wrote sci-fi novels, was obsessed with wealth and status symbols, was paranoid about the government, treated others badly, and yet started a religion as a business venture that attracted thousands of devoted followers. You'd probably say, "yeah, right; a nice allegory for an aspect of the American psyche, but I don't think so." Although, if you were familiar with Scientology, you might not be so surprised. Many aren't familiar with Scientology, in part because the Scientologists have been relentless and devoted to stamping out dissent and negative portrayals of their religion (previous books on L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology's founder ended up with the publisher abandoning the project due to law suits and the British publisher of this book, dropped it for fear of libel law suits [which are easier to win in the UK]). New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright, who isknownas one of our great investigative journalists, has prepared himself by doing an incredible amount of due diligence and fact checking (apparently the fact checkersatthe New Yorker, which first published an article on Scientology by Wright, made herculean efforts to make sure they got the facts right). Not surprisingly, Scientology does not come off well in Going Clear. Wright portrays Scientology as in large part an expression of L. Ron Hubbard's whimsy: "Even as Hubbard was inventing the doctrine, each of his decisions and actions would become enshrined in Scientology lore as something to be emulated -- his cigarette smoking, for instance, which is stilla feature of the church's culture at the upper levels, as are his 1950s habits of speech, his casual misogyny, his aversion to perfume and scented deodorants, and his love of cars and motorcycles and Rolex watches. More significant is the legacy of his belittling behavior toward subordinates and his paranoia about the government. Such traits stamped the religion as an extremely secretive and sometimes hostile organization that saw enemies on every corner." Also unsurprisingly, Wright does not createa simple portrayal of Hubbard and Scientology. He grants him greater complexity than a simple con man. It seems Hubbard, who had a fertile imagination and intelligence (he wrote 1,000 books), believed in his own ideas. And obviously, there was something powerfully charismatic about him, that drew people to him. For that reason, whether you are for or against Scientology, Going Clear is definitely a worthwhile read. 42 out of 42 found this helpful |
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トキさんの掲示板に統一協会についての本の紹介がありました。
http://jbbs.livedoor.jp/bbs/read.cgi/study/11346/1319009349/1002 なかなか面白そうです。
読んでみたいですね。
統一教会―日本宣教の戦略と韓日祝福
平成22年（2010年）5月1日掲載
著者の一人 北海道大学大学院教授櫻井義秀教授に聞く
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