The fantastic laboratory of Dr. Weigl : how two brave scientists battled typhus and sabotaged the Nazis / Arthur Allen.

  • Allen, Arthur, 1959-
Date:
[2014]
  • Books

About this work

Also known as

How two brave scientists battled typhus and sabotaged the Nazis

Description

Describes the true story of how the eccentric Polish scientist tasked by the Nazis to create a typhus vaccine hid the intelligentsia from the Gestapo by hiring them to work in his laboratory.

The story of "Jewish prisoner-scientists in Buchenwald who made a vaccine against ... typhus. Their untold secret: they provided the real vaccine to camp inmates but a fake one to German troops at the eastern front"--Dust jacket back.

Publication/Creation

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]

Physical description

viii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition

First edition.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-358) and index.

Contents

Lice, war, typhus, madness -- City on the edge of time -- The louse feeders -- The Nazi doctors and the shape of things to come -- War and epidemics -- Parasites -- The fantastic laboratory of Dr. Wiegl [sic] -- Armies of winter -- The terrifying clinic of Dr. Ding -- "Paradise" at Auschwitz -- Buchenwald : rabbit stew and fake vaccine -- Imperfect justice.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    FR.37.AA9
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 039308101X
  • 9780393081015