Saving Lives in Auschwitz: The Prisoners’ Hospital in Buna-Monowitz 1612494935, 9781612494937

In a 1941 Nazi roundup of educated Poles, Stefan Budziaszek-newly graduated from medical school in Krakow-was incarcerat

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Saving Lives in Auschwitz: The Prisoners’ Hospital in Buna-Monowitz
1612494935, 9781612494937

A heroic doctor’s unflinchingly honest and visceral tale of impossible choices in emergency medicine. ‘A brilliant insig

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Myriad works discuss forgiveness, but few address it in the prison context. For most people, prisoners exist "out o

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The Republic of Indonesia, home to over 240 million people, is the world's fourth most populous nation. Ethnically,

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A look at the perpetrators of the Auschwitz crimes from a new, little-known, and sometimes surprising perspective. The b

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The issue of prisoners in war is a highly timely topic that has received much attention from both scholars and practitio

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Ujjwal Kumar Singh is Professor of Political Science at Hindu College, and is a Fellow at the Developing Countries Resea

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Throughout the Victorian period, life-threatening diseases were no respecter of class, affecting rich and poor alike. Ho

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Oklahoma has long held the dubious honor of having the highest female incarceration rate in the country, nearly twice th

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This book was written to fill a need for a basic text about medical social work. The material has specific reference to

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The conventional picture of allied POWs in the World War II prisoner-of-war camps is of escape attempts (Colditz and The

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