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Nurses in Nazi Germany : moral choice in history / Bronwyn Rebekah McFarland-Icke.
- Title
- Nurses in Nazi Germany : moral choice in history / Bronwyn Rebekah McFarland-Icke.
- Author
- McFarland-Icke, Bronwyn Rebekah, 1965-
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | RC440 .M325 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xv, 343 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "This book tells the story of German nurses who, directly or indirectly, participated in the Nazis' "euthanasia" measures against patients with mental and physical disabilities, measures that claimed well over 100,000 victims from 1939 to 1945. How could men and women who were trained to care for their patients come to kill or assist in murder or mistreatment?
- This is the central question pursued by Bronwyn McFarland-Icke as she details the lives of nurses from the beginning of the Weimar Republic through the years of National Socialist rule. Rather than examine what the Party did or did not order, she looks into the hearts and minds of people whose complicity in murder is not easily explained with reference to ideological enthusiasm."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Allied Health Personnel
- Ethics, Medical > history > 20th Century
- Ethics, Nursing > history > 20th Century
- Euthanasia > 20th Century
- Euthanasia > Germany > History > 20th century
- Germany
- Medical ethics > Germany > History > 20th century
- Medical policy > Germany > History > 20th century
- National socialism and medicine > Germany
- Nursing ethics > Germany > History > 20th century
- Psychiatric nursing > Moral and ethical aspects > Germany > History > 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities
- ISBN
- 0691006652 (cl. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99018151
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries