Michel Cymes
Médecin spécialiste, Michel Cymes est un animateur très populaire, il présente plusieurs émissions médicales sur France Télévisions (« Aventures de Médecine », «...
Hippocrate aux enfers
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14/01/2015
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Essais - Documents
HIPPOCRATES IN HELL. Doctors in the Death Camps
Rights sold to Germany (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft), Korea (Hansol Soobook), the Netherlands (Athenaeum) and Romania (Publicatiile Flacara)
Eight years ago Michel Cymes travelled alone to Poland, following in the footsteps of his grandfather who died in Auschwitz. He came home with the urge to write this book as a memorial, one very close to his heart.
Doctors were among the first to be infected by the disease of fascism: in Auschwitz, Dachau, Buchenwald and Strasbourg the worst atrocities were committed by those who had taken the Hippocratic Oath. The name Mengele may be familiar, but we must not forget the victims of and horrific acts perpetrated by Rascher, Clauberg, Heim and Hirt. It is this act of commemoration that Michel Cymes asks us to make as he casts his contemporary doctor’s eye over this lesser known aspect of Nazi barbarity: medical experiments carried out on prisoners without their consent.
Drawing on many eyewitness accounts and on extensive archive material, and revealing often uncomfortable truths, he gives a frank and impassioned account of Hippocrates’ descent into hell.
Michel Cymes is a doctor who works in a Paris hospital. He is a much loved presenter for several medical programmes on France Télévisions (Magazine de la Santé, Aventures de Médecine, Pouvoirs Extraordinaires du corps humain, Enquête de Santé).
Rights sold to Germany (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft), Korea (Hansol Soobook), the Netherlands (Athenaeum) and Romania (Publicatiile Flacara)
Eight years ago Michel Cymes travelled alone to Poland, following in the footsteps of his grandfather who died in Auschwitz. He came home with the urge to write this book as a memorial, one very close to his heart.
Doctors were among the first to be infected by the disease of fascism: in Auschwitz, Dachau, Buchenwald and Strasbourg the worst atrocities were committed by those who had taken the Hippocratic Oath. The name Mengele may be familiar, but we must not forget the victims of and horrific acts perpetrated by Rascher, Clauberg, Heim and Hirt. It is this act of commemoration that Michel Cymes asks us to make as he casts his contemporary doctor’s eye over this lesser known aspect of Nazi barbarity: medical experiments carried out on prisoners without their consent.
Drawing on many eyewitness accounts and on extensive archive material, and revealing often uncomfortable truths, he gives a frank and impassioned account of Hippocrates’ descent into hell.
Michel Cymes is a doctor who works in a Paris hospital. He is a much loved presenter for several medical programmes on France Télévisions (Magazine de la Santé, Aventures de Médecine, Pouvoirs Extraordinaires du corps humain, Enquête de Santé).
« Ce livre est une pierre posée sur le fragile édifice de la mémoire de la Shoah. » M. Cymes
Les médecins ont été parmi les premiers malades atteints de la Peste Brune : à Auschwitz, à Dachau, à Buchenwald ou à Strasbourg, les pires atrocités ont été commises par ceux qui avaient prêté le serment d’Hippocrate. Si le nom de Mengele est encore connu, il ne faut pas oublier les actes et les victimes de Rascher, Clauberg, Heim et Hirt : c’est à cet exercice de mémoire que nous convie Michel Cymes, qui jette son regard de médecin d’aujourd’hui sur une facette moins connue de la barbarie nazie, les expérimentations médicales pratiquées sans consentement sur les détenus.
S’appuyant sur de nombreux témoignages ainsi que sur une documentation récente voire inédite, révélant des vérités qui ne sont pas toujours bonnes à entendre, Michel Cymes raconte avec franchise et passion comment Hippocrate est descendu aux enfers.
216 pages
Format :
135 x 215 mm
EAN :
9782234078031
Prix :
18.50 €
