Medicine and modern warfare

dimension in depth, he suggests that an appreciation of Nazi health initiatives can help us "better understand how fascism triumphed in the first place" (p. 278). Indeed, future studies of the public reception of Nazi health initiatives may find that they made fascism more attractive-but, granted the sensitivity of health enthusiasts to public opinion and their ambivalence about potentially unpopular moves, we may also be in for some surprises. In the meantime, The Nazi war on cancer will draw a wide readership, thanks to its novelty, its scholarly merit, its imaginative illustrations, and the willingness of its author to confront, frankly and candidly, the moral dilemmas arising from his research.