En el trabajo se aborda el testimonio de la doctora alsaciana, Adélaïde Hautval, sobre la pseudomedicina practicada en el Lager y sobre su negativa a colaborar en el crimen contra la humanidad. A través de su diario de la deportación y de las actas de un peculiar juicio a Auschwitz celebrado en Londres en 1964, nos adentramos en los dilemas ético-profesionales que tuvieron que afrontar los médicos prisioneros en aquel escenario y que, en su caso, dieron lugar a acciones de resistencia ante la barbarie, de desobediencia a sus superiores y de solidaridad con las víctimas capaces de iluminar la actitud a tomar ante los dispositivos biopolíticos contemporáneos.
This article approaches the testimony of the Alsatian psychiatrist Dr Adélaïde Hautval on the pseudomedicine that was practiced in the Medical experimentation Block 10 of Auschwitz Birkenau, and on her refusal to take part in this crime against humanity. By reading her deportation diary and the acts of a peculiar judgment in Auschwitz that was celebrated in London in 1964, we are confronted with the ethical and professional dilemmas that doctors, who were themselves prisoners, had to face in this situation, and that incited them to resist inhumanity by acts, to disobey their superiors, and to be solidary with the victims. This attitude enlightens us on the course to follow in front of the bio-political policies of today.
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