{"title":"Bruno Halioua","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"medicine-in-the-days-of-the-pharaohs-book-bruno-halioua-9780674017023","title":"Medicine in the Days of the Pharaohs","description":"At the temple of Kom Ombo near Aswan, an enigmatic frieze depicts the deified pharaoh Imhotep receiving a set of elaborate implements, some of which strikingly resemble modern surgical instruments: side by side with eye-of-Horus amulets one finds what surely must be forceps. Evidence of the medical practice of ancient Egypt has come down to us not only in pictorial art but also in papyrus scrolls, in funerary inscriptions, and in the mummified bodies of ancient Egyptians themselves. Bruno Halioua and Bernard Ziskind provide a comprehensive account of pharaonic medicine that is illuminated by what modern science has discovered about the lives (and deaths) of people from all walks of life - farmers, fishermen, miners, soldiers, scribes and priests, embalmers, construction workers, bakers, prostitutes. From mummies and medical papyri we are able to recognize the aches of osteoarthritis, imagine the occupational hazards faced by press-ganged stonemasons, and learn of the gynecological complaints of courtesans. In presenting these stories Halioua and Ziskind throw light on some of the most enduring questions about life and death in antiquity: about physicians whose skills predate Hippocrates by twenty-five centuries and were first made famous by Homer, about the remedies and techniques they employed, at once strange and strangely familiar, about the men, women, and children they treated, and about the diseases and injuries they were called upon to heal.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50049806991633,"sku":"CIN0674017021G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50981350605073,"sku":"GOR003391619","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52327577059601,"sku":"CIN0674017021VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53615744516369,"sku":"CIN0674017021A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0674017021.jpg?v=1751167740"},{"product_id":"los-medicos-de-auschwitz-the-doctors-of-auschwitz-book-bruno-halioua-9786073934329","title":"Los Médicos de Auschwitz \/ The Doctors of Auschwitz","description":"\u003cp\u003eUn testimonio espeluznante sobre la actuación de los médicos para ejecutar la Solución Final en el más infame de los campos nazis del Tercer Reich.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 de enero de 1945. Las tropas soviéticas entran por primera vez en Auschwitz-Birkenau y descubren con horror el principal centro de exterminio del Tercer Reich. Sesenta mil prisioneros serán liberados a su llegada, pero allí quedarán siete mil enfermos al borde de la muerte. ¿Cómo pudieron sobrevivir a ese infierno? ¿Qué papel tuvieron los médicos en la organización del campo?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBasándose en documentos inéditos y testimonios de supervivientes, Bruno Halioua demuestra la responsabilidad de los doctores de las SS en la Solución Final. Fueron ellos quienes cometieron las mayores atrocidades y quienes utilizaron a miles de personas como conejillos de Indias para sus experimentos.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePero, por fortuna, también se produjo el movimiento inverso: el de los médicos deportados que, obligados por los nazis a trabajar para ellos, dieron muestra de un férreo carácter y se jugaron la vida para ayudar a los enfermos que había en Auschwitz. ¿Sus armas? Mentir, ocultar, robar y falsificar documentos. Pero ¿hasta qué punto estaban dispuestos a ceder para salvar vidas? ¿Debían aceptar la colaboración y entrar de esta manera en la llamada «zona gris», tan bien descrita por Primo Levi, con la esperanza de salvarse?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA chilling testimony about physicians' role in carrying out the Final Solution at the Nazis' most infamous camp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn 27 January 1945, Soviet troops entered Auschwitz-Birkenau and discovered with horror the Third Reich's principal extermination center. Sixty thousand prisoners were liberated, but seven thousand seriously ill detainees remained. How did they survive that hell? What role did physicians play in the camp's organization?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBased on unpublished documents and survivor testimonies, Bruno Halioua demonstrates the responsibility of SS doctors in the Final Solution. They committed some of the worst atrocities and used thousands of people as guinea pigs for their experiments. The book also examines \u003cb\u003ethe reverse movement\u003c\/b\u003e: deported physicians who risked their lives to help the sick, using deception, concealment, theft, and forged documents to save others, and the moral tensions of entering the so-called \"grey zone\" \u003cb\u003edescribed by\u003c\/b\u003e Primo Levi.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52982111731985,"sku":"NIN9786073934329","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9786073934329.jpg?v=1767133942"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-bruno-halioua.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}