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The Weight of the Word Chapter 2. Max Clara - Clara Cells Max Clara was born in 1899 in Fiè allo Sciliar, South Tyrol, then part of Austria-Hungary. A physician and academic, he studied medicine in Innsbruck and Leipzig before returning to Austria. Following World War I and the Italian annexation of South Tyrol, Clara attempted to ease the effects of forced Italianization by advocating for bilingual medical practice. His academic career advanced rapidly: by 1935 he had become a professor of anatomy at the University of Leipzig, where he joined the Nazi Party and took an active role in National Socialist academic institutions. His lectures publicly praised Hitler, and he positioned himself politically within the academic community by denouncing colleagues who worked with Jewish scientists. Clara is best known for identifying a type of cell in the bronchiolar epithelium—later named “Clara cells”—using bodies of executed prisoners as research material. Under Nazi law, his institute had access to a steady stream of corpses from political executions, especially from the Dresden area. Clara personally advocated for using these bodies without family consent and conducted experiments, including administering vitamin C to prisoners awaiting execution. After the war, his Nazi affiliations barred him from resuming a career in Germany or Austria. He instead taught in Turkey until 1961 and died in Munich in 1966. In 2012, due to his ethical violations under the Nazi regime, the eponym “Clara cells” was officially replaced by the more neutral term “club cells”. From the Book: The Weight of the Word by Piero Martinello, with texts by Piero Casentini. Published by @fw.books Medical eponyms are denominations of syndromes, diseases and discoveries that carry the name of the scientist who first isolated and described them. To this day, numerous eponyms controversially perpetuate the memory of doctors who operated under the Nazi regime. Specifications: 272 p / 21 x 29,7 cm / curator: @massimilianotommasorezza / design: @__gio.ca / isbn 978-90-835197-2-2 Order via link in bio or find it at your local bookstore

The Weight of the Word Chapter 1. Hans Reiter - Reiter’s Arthritis In 1916, German physician Hans Reiter described a condition later named “Reiter’s Arthritis”, now known as reactive arthritis. Celebrated for his scientific brilliance, Reiter built a prominent academic career—but behind his achievements lies a darker legacy. A fervent supporter of Nazi ideology, Reiter helped shape and apply the biopolitical vision of National Socialism. As head of the Reich Health Office, he promoted eugenics, authorized forced sterilizations, and justified medicine as a tool for “racial hygiene.” Under his leadership, over 400,000 people were sterilized and thousands euthanized in the name of genetic “purity.” He later oversaw human experiments in Buchenwald, where hundreds of prisoners were injected with a typhus vaccine, most of whom died. Despite his direct involvement in Nazi crimes, Reiter was never tried at Nuremberg and went on to resume a respectable postwar career. He published extensively, attended international congresses, and was even honored by scientific institutions. Only decades later did the medical community begin questioning the use of his name. Today, “Reiter’s Arthritis” is gradually being replaced with reactive arthritis—a reminder that science must be grounded in ethics, and that names carry histories. From the Book: The Weight of the Word by Piero Martinello, with texts by Piero Casentini. Published by @fw.books Medical eponyms are denominations of syndromes, diseases and discoveries that carry the name of the scientist who first isolated and described them. To this day, numerous eponyms controversially perpetuate the memory of doctors who operated under the Nazi regime. Specifications: 272 p / 21 x 29,7 cm / curator: @massimilianotommasorezza / design: @__gio.ca / isbn 978-90-835197-2-2 Order via the link in bio or find it at your local bookstore

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