Sabine Hildebrandt is an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Medicine, at Boston Children's Hospital and a Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on the history and ethics of anatomy, and she is an internationally recognized expert on anatomy in National Socialist Germany.

• ForewordWilliam SeidelmanAcknowledgementsAbbreviations and German TermsIntroductionChapter 1. History of research on medicine and anatomy in National SocialismChapter 2. Anatomy and related sciences before 1933Chapter 3. The interaction between the NS state and anatomistsChapter 4. The NS state and the Anatomische GesellschaftChapter 5. Anatomists who became victims of NS policiesChapter 6. Anatomists working in NS GermanyChapter 7. NS victims and the use of their bodies for anatomical purposesChapter 8. The science of anatomy in NS GermanyChapter 9. After the warChapter 10. Developments in professional ethics in anatomyChapter 11. Anatomy- on the edge of cultureAppendix: Tables 1-6Index

"The Anatomy of Murder itself is comprehensive, fully documented in scores of primary and secondary sources, and carefully places its findings in the context of previous historical research on the history of medicine in Germany before, during and after the Third Reich. There are extensive chapter notes and bibliographies to many archival and published sources." German History Review

Sabine Hildebrandt is an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Medicine, at Boston Children's Hospital and a Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on the history and ethics of anatomy, and she is an internationally recognized expert on anatomy in National Socialist Germany.

• ForewordWilliam SeidelmanAcknowledgementsAbbreviations and German TermsIntroductionChapter 1. History of research on medicine and anatomy in National SocialismChapter 2. Anatomy and related sciences before 1933Chapter 3. The interaction between the NS state and anatomistsChapter 4. The NS state and the Anatomische GesellschaftChapter 5. Anatomists who became victims of NS policiesChapter 6. Anatomists working in NS GermanyChapter 7. NS victims and the use of their bodies for anatomical purposesChapter 8. The science of anatomy in NS GermanyChapter 9. After the warChapter 10. Developments in professional ethics in anatomyChapter 11. Anatomy- on the edge of cultureAppendix: Tables 1-6Index

"The Anatomy of Murder itself is comprehensive, fully documented in scores of primary and secondary sources, and carefully places its findings in the context of previous historical research on the history of medicine in Germany before, during and after the Third Reich. There are extensive chapter notes and bibliographies to many archival and published sources." German History Review

Sabine Hildebrandt is an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Medicine, at Boston Children's Hospital and a Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on the history and ethics of anatomy, and she is an internationally recognized expert on anatomy in National Socialist Germany.

• ForewordWilliam SeidelmanAcknowledgementsAbbreviations and German TermsIntroductionChapter 1. History of research on medicine and anatomy in National SocialismChapter 2. Anatomy and related sciences before 1933Chapter 3. The interaction between the NS state and anatomistsChapter 4. The NS state and the Anatomische GesellschaftChapter 5. Anatomists who became victims of NS policiesChapter 6. Anatomists working in NS GermanyChapter 7. NS victims and the use of their bodies for anatomical purposesChapter 8. The science of anatomy in NS GermanyChapter 9. After the warChapter 10. Developments in professional ethics in anatomyChapter 11. Anatomy- on the edge of cultureAppendix: Tables 1-6Index

"The Anatomy of Murder itself is comprehensive, fully documented in scores of primary and secondary sources, and carefully places its findings in the context of previous historical research on the history of medicine in Germany before, during and after the Third Reich. There are extensive chapter notes and bibliographies to many archival and published sources." German History Review