Irena Strzelecka's historical outline includes:
- the development of the camp hospital network,
- conditions and the medical treatment of prisoners in the camp hospitals,
- the extermination function of the Auschwitz hospitals,
- the hospital offices.
Additionally, the volume includes the following selected sources:
- conditions and the medical treatment of prisoners in the camp hospitals,
- the extermination function of the Auschwitz hospitals,
- the falsification of the hospital records,
- the camp hospital in works of art by former prisoners.
There are also biographical sketches of the authors of memoirs, accounts and testimonies, and timeline of important events in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.