„Wir sind doch keine Versuchskaninchen”. Eksperymenty pseudomedyczne we wspomnieniach więźniarek z Ravensbrück
“Wir sind doch keine Versuchskaninchen”. Pseudomedical Experiments in the Memories of Ravensbrück Inmates

Summary/Abstract: The present article is devoted to the analysis of memories of Polish inmates of KL Ravensbrück. They belonged to a group of 86 women who fell victim to a tragic series of pseudomedical research devoted to the effectiveness of new pharmaceutical drugs, the sulfonamides. The author of the article focuses only on selected aspects of the accounts, chiefly on the question of dehumanization. Even during their stay in the camp, the women subjected to medical experiments by Nazi doctors were referred to as “guinea pigs” (Versuchskaninchen). It is around this figure, which cumulates “objectification and oppression” (Donna Haraway’s term), that the essential part of the presented discussion revolves.

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