Nurses in Nazi Germany
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: November 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780691006659
Subjects: Ethics & moral philosophy; European history: Second World War; History of medicine; Nursing & Ancillary Services; The Holocaust; Second World War, 1939-1945; Holocaust; Medical Ethics; Nursing - Psychiatric; Medical; History - Military / War; Military - World War II; History: World; Europe; Nursing - General; European History; History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science; Medical / History; Germany; Nursing ethics; Ethics; Psychiatric Nursing; 20th century; History; Medical policy; Moral and ethical aspects
First sentence: THIS POSITION, taken by a former Meseritz-Obrawalde nurse in 1962, did not stop her from transporting patients into the institution's so-called killing room during the war years, where they received lethal doses of sedatives in the course of "euthanasia" measures.