The Leopard Lily Project: A Story of Nazi Pseudoscience
暫譯: 豹百合計畫：納粹偽科學的故事

Ernst, Edzard

The Leopard Lily Project: A Story of Nazi Pseudoscience
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2026-06-18
  • 售價: $1,100
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 101
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3032247705
  • ISBN-13: 9783032247704

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商品描述

This book tells the bewildering tale of one of the most insidious, yet almost forgotten crimes against humanity planned by the Nazis during the Third Reich. Soon after taking power in 1933, the Nazis introduced a program of involuntary sterilization of those German citizens who they considered unworthy of reproduction. These were predominantly, but not exclusively, people afflicted with hereditary diseases. Doctors were required to register with newly established health courts every known case of hereditary illness, including genetic blindness and deafness, manic depression, schizophrenia, epilepsy, congenital feeble-mindedness, Huntington's chorea, and alcoholism. Common sterilization methods at the time required long recovery periods and often resulted in death, so when an Austrian dermatologist wrote to Himmler proposing that sterilization of 3 million Bolsheviks could be carried out with the South American plant Leopard Lily (dieffenbachia seguine seguinum, or dumb bane), Himmler, who was easily impressed by quacks, had his interest piqued. To connect the various strands of this complex story, this book explores Nazi ideology, their fascination with alternative medicine, particularly herbal medicine, and Himmler and his inclination towards pseudoscience, as well as other key individuals. Anyone with an interest in alternative medicine and pseudoscience, medical ethics, the history of medicine, or the Nazi regime will learn much from this previously untold story.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本書講述了一個令人困惑的故事，關於納粹在第三帝國期間策劃的最隱秘、卻幾乎被遺忘的人類罪行之一。納粹在1933年掌握政權後不久，便推出了一項對德國公民進行非自願絕育的計劃，這些人被認為不配繁衍後代。這些人主要是，但不僅限於，患有遺傳疾病的人。醫生被要求向新成立的健康法庭登記所有已知的遺傳疾病案例，包括遺傳性失明和失聰、躁鬱症、精神分裂症、癲癇、先天性弱智、亨廷頓舞蹈症和酗酒。當時常見的絕育方法需要長時間的恢復期，並且常常導致死亡，因此當一位奧地利皮膚科醫生寫信給希姆萊，提議可以用南美植物豹百合（dieffenbachia seguine seguinum，或稱為愚人草）對300萬名布爾什維克進行絕育時，希姆萊這位容易被江湖醫生所吸引的人，對此產生了興趣。為了連結這個複雜故事的各個線索，這本書探討了納粹意識形態、他們對替代醫學的著迷，特別是草藥醫學，以及希姆萊和他對偽科學的傾向，還有其他關鍵人物。對替代醫學和偽科學、醫學倫理、醫學歷史或納粹政權感興趣的人，將從這個之前未曾講述的故事中獲益良多。

作者簡介

Edzard Ernst was born in 1948 and received his education in Germany and the United States. He studied psychology and medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, qualifying as a physician in 1977 and completing both his MD and PhD degrees there.

He subsequently served as Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR) at Hannover Medical School in Germany and later as Head of the PMR Department at the University of Vienna in Austria. In 1993, he joined the University of Exeter, where he established the world's first Chair in Complementary Medicine. Since 2012, he has been Emeritus Professor at the University of Exeter and currently resides in Cambridge, UK, and Brittany, France.

Ernst is the founder and former Editor-in-Chief of three medical journals--Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies, European Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Perfusion. He has been a columnist for numerous publications, including the BMJ, The Guardian, The Independent, The Spectator, Skeptic Magazine, L'Express, Der Spiegel, Die Welt, and Der Standard. His work has been recognized with 17 scientific awards, most recently the John Maddox Prize (2015) and the Ockham Award (2017), and he has held Visiting Professorships in Canada and the United States. From 1994 to 2005, he served on the Medicines Commission of the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

He has published more than 1,000 scientific papers (current H-Index: 154), over 50 books, translated into more than a dozen languages, and more than 100 book chapters. He also authors a widely read blog (edzardernst.com). Over the course of his career, he has delivered more than 700 invited lectures worldwide, supervised more than 50 MD and PhD theses, and served as an expert witness in numerous legal cases.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

埃茲德·恩斯特（Edzard Ernst）於1948年出生，並在德國和美國接受教育。他在慕尼黑的路德維希·馬克西米利安大學（Ludwig Maximilians University）學習心理學和醫學，於1977年獲得醫師資格，並在該校完成了醫學博士（MD）和哲學博士（PhD）學位。

隨後，他在德國漢諾威醫學院擔任物理醫學與復健（PMR）教授，之後又在奧地利維也納大學擔任PMR系主任。1993年，他加入埃克塞特大學，創立了世界上第一個補充醫學的講座。自2012年以來，他成為埃克塞特大學的名譽教授，目前居住在英國劍橋和法國布列塔尼。

恩斯特是三本醫學期刊的創始人和前主編——《Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies》、《European Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation》和《Perfusion》。他曾為多家出版物撰寫專欄，包括《BMJ》、《The Guardian》、《The Independent》、《The Spectator》、《Skeptic Magazine》、《L'Express》、《Der Spiegel》、《Die Welt》和《Der Standard》。他的工作獲得了17項科學獎項的認可，最近的獎項包括約翰·馬多克斯獎（John Maddox Prize，2015年）和奧卡姆獎（Ockham Award，2017年），並在加拿大和美國擔任過訪問教授。從1994年到2005年，他曾在英國藥品和健康產品監管局（MHRA）的藥品委員會任職。

他已發表超過1,000篇科學論文（目前H指數：154），出版超過50本書籍，並翻譯成十多種語言，還有超過100章書籍。他還撰寫了一個廣受歡迎的博客（edzardernst.com）。在他的職業生涯中，他在全球發表了超過700場受邀演講，指導了超過50篇醫學博士和哲學博士論文，並在多起法律案件中擔任專家證人。

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