Nurses and Midwives in Nazi Germany (eBook, ePUB)

The "Euthanasia Programs"
Redaktion: Benedict, Susan; Shields, Linda

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Beginning in the late 1930s, the National Socialism government of Germany began a program of killing individuals with mental or physical disabilities. Six "killing centres" were established. By August 1941, knowledge of the killings had spread to the general public and Hitler called for the program to end. This, however, did not end the killings. The gas chambers were dismantled and taken to the concentration camps, but the killing of psychiatric patients continued at many institutions throughout the Reich. Over 70,000 people were killed at the established centres and in psychiatric hospitals, with an estimated 10,000 being killed by nurses. This book offers a pioneering and startling historical analysis of the ways in which nurses were involved in and central to the success of the Nazi "euthanasia" program.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317859390
• Artikelnr.: 40831568

Autorenporträt

Susan Benedict is Professor of Nursing, Director of Global Health, and Co-Director of the Campus-Wide Ethics Program at the University of Texas Health Science Center School of Nursing in Houston. Linda Shields is Director of the Tropical Health Research Unit, a partnership between James Cook University and Townsville Hospital and Health Service in Queensland, and Honorary Professor, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Setting the Scene Linda Shields 2. Fertile Ground for Murder Susan
Benedict 3. Nursing During National Socialism Thomas Foth, Jochen Kuhla and
Susan Benedict 4. Psychiatric Nursing During the Era of National Socialism
Susan Benedict, Mary Lagerwey and Linda Shields 5. The Medicalization of
Murder: The "Euthanasia" Programs Susan Benedict 6. Meseritz-Obrawalde: A
Site for "Wild Euthanasia" Susan Benedict 7. Klagenfurt: "She Killed As
Part of Her Daily Duties" Susan Benedict 8. German Midwifery in the "Third
Reich" Wiebke Lisner and Anja Peters 9. From History to Memory: Using the
"Euthanasia" Programs to Teach Nursing Ethics Ellen Ben-Sefer and Dganit
Sharon 10. Changing Perspectives: From "Euthanasia Killings" to the
"Killing of Sick Persons" Thomas Foth 11. Conclusion Linda Shields and
Susan Benedict