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Caring and Killing: Nursing and Psychiatric Practice in Germany, 1931--1943 (2013)

Foth, Thomas (Author)

V&R Unipress
Publication date: 2013
Language: English

ISBN: 9783847100621

Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: 279 + pp.; ill.

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Psychiatry World War II Disease and diseases Patients Nurses and nursing Euthanasia Mental disorders and diseases Medicine and ethics 20th century Germany

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.

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Review Pelletier-Audet, Alexandre (2014) Review of "Caring and Killing: Nursing and Psychiatric Practice in Germany, 1931--1943". Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine (pp. 213-214). unapi

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