Overview
- Summary
- A personal account by the Harvard Medical School lecturer and political activist traces his explorations into the psychological sources and consequences of some of the past half-century's most disturbing events as experienced by its victims and perpetrators.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Free Press, 2011
- Locale
- United States
- Edition
- 1st Free Press hardcover ed
- Contents
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Section 1. Discovering the world
and its totalism
The decision
Method and research
Finding a mentor
Finding a voice
with help from friends
Further struggles with totalism
section 2. "Hiroshima had disappeared"
Getting to Hiroshima
The visceral immersion
Entrapment by the bomb
Dr. Hiroshima
section 3. Vietnam and the sixties
Responding to slaughter
Existential evil
"The sixties"
Home from the war
section 4. Nazi doctors
did it really happen?
Strong enough stomach?
Sitting down with Nazi doctors
Historical encounters
Annihilated by Europe
The infernal chorus
section 5. Next steps
Coming home
Full circle. - Notes
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Section 1. Discovering the world -- and its totalism -- The decision -- Method and research -- Finding a mentor -- Finding a voice -- with help from friends -- Further struggles with totalism -- section 2. "Hiroshima had disappeared" -- Getting to Hiroshima -- The visceral immersion -- Entrapment by the bomb -- Dr. Hiroshima -- section 3. Vietnam and the sixties -- Responding to slaughter -- Existential evil -- "The sixties" -- Home from the war -- section 4. Nazi doctors -- did it really happen? -- Strong enough stomach? -- Sitting down with Nazi doctors -- Historical encounters -- Annihilated by Europe -- The infernal chorus -- section 5. Next steps -- Coming home -- Full circle.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781416590767
1416590765 (hardcover)
9781416597186 (ebook)
1416597182 (ebook)
9781416590781 (trade paper)
1416590781 (trade paper) - Physical Description
- xv, 428 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Historians--United States--Biography. Psychiatrists--United States--Biography. Political activists--United States--Biography. History, Modern--20th century. Military history, Modern--20th century. Genocide--History--20th century. Nuclear warfare--History--20th century. Radicalism--History--20th century. War and society--History--20th century. Social change--History--20th century. Lifton, Robert Jay,--1926-
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- 2011-07-11 10:03:00
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