Caring and Killing: Nursing and Psychiatric Practice in Germany, 1931-1943

Under the Nazi regime in Germany a calculated killing of chronic "mentally ill" patients took place. Nurses executed this program in their everyday practice. However, suspicions have been raised that psychiatric patients were also assassinated before and after the Nazi regime, suggesting t...

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1. Verfasser: Foth, Thomas (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Remmers, Hartmut (HerausgeberIn), Lücke, Wolfgang Rainer (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Göttingen Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag 2013
Ausgabe:1st ed
Schriftenreihe:Pflegewissenschaft und Pflegebildung
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Online-Zugang:DE-B1533
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Zusammenfassung:Under the Nazi regime in Germany a calculated killing of chronic "mentally ill" patients took place. Nurses executed this program in their everyday practice. However, suspicions have been raised that psychiatric patients were also assassinated before and after the Nazi regime, suggesting that the motives for these killings must be investigated within psychiatric practice itself. This book highlights the mechanisms and scientific discourses in place that allowed nurses to perceive patients as unworthy of life. This study analyzes patient records as "inscriptions" that actively intervene in interactions in institutions and that create a specific reality on their own accord. The question is not whether the reality represented within the documents is true, but rather how documents worked in institutions and what their effects were. It is shown how nurses were actively involved in the construction of patients' identities and how these "documentary identities" led to the death of thousands of humans
Beschreibung:V&R Unipress
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (279 Seiten) mit 41 Abbildungen
ISBN:9783847000624

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