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Nurses in Nazi Germany : moral choice in history, Bronwyn Rebekah McFarland-Icke

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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."--Jacket
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xv, 343 pages
Contents
  • Ch. 1. Ordinary Germans revisited: nurses, psychiatry, and morality in historical context -- Ch. 2. Neither riffraff nor saints: the ambivalent professionalization of the psychiatric nurse -- Ch. 3. Educating nurses in the spirit of the times: Weimar psychiatry in theory and practice -- Ch. 4. The evasiveness of the ideal: private and professional obstacles -- Ch. 5. Cleaning house in Wittenau: 1933 and the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service -- Ch. 6. Reeducating nurses in the spirit of the times: Geisteskrankenpflege in the service of national socialism
  • Ch. 7. Politics and professional life under national socialism -- Ch. 8. War, mass murder, and moral flight: psychiatric nursing, 1939-1945 -- Ch. 9. Concluding remarks
Isbn
9780691006659
Instance
Label
Nurses in Nazi Germany : moral choice in history
Title
Nurses in Nazi Germany
Title remainder
moral choice in history
Statement of responsibility
Bronwyn Rebekah McFarland-Icke
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
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."--Jacket
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DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1965-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
McFarland-Icke, Bronwyn Rebekah
Index
index present
LC call number
RC440
LC item number
.M325 1999
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
NLM call number
  • 1999 K-747
  • WY 11 GG4
NLM item number
M478n 1999
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Psychiatric nursing
  • Nursing ethics
  • Medical policy
  • National socialism and medicine
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Euthanasia
  • Medical ethics
  • Psychiatric Nursing
  • Ethics, Nursing
  • Euthanasia
  • Political Systems
  • Warfare
  • National socialism and medicine
  • Medische ethiek
  • Verpleegkundigen
  • Derde Rijk
  • Nationaal-socialisme
  • Infirmiers psychiatriques
  • Infirmiers psychiatriques
  • Infirmières
  • Euthanasie
  • Éthique médicale
  • Maladies mentales
  • National-socialisme et psychiatrie
  • Guerre mondiale (1939-1945)
Label
Nurses in Nazi Germany : moral choice in history, Bronwyn Rebekah McFarland-Icke
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-335) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Ch. 1. Ordinary Germans revisited: nurses, psychiatry, and morality in historical context -- Ch. 2. Neither riffraff nor saints: the ambivalent professionalization of the psychiatric nurse -- Ch. 3. Educating nurses in the spirit of the times: Weimar psychiatry in theory and practice -- Ch. 4. The evasiveness of the ideal: private and professional obstacles -- Ch. 5. Cleaning house in Wittenau: 1933 and the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service -- Ch. 6. Reeducating nurses in the spirit of the times: Geisteskrankenpflege in the service of national socialism
  • Ch. 7. Politics and professional life under national socialism -- Ch. 8. War, mass murder, and moral flight: psychiatric nursing, 1939-1945 -- Ch. 9. Concluding remarks
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xv, 343 pages
Isbn
9780691006659
Isbn Type
(cl. : alk. paper)
Lccn
99018151
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)40776863
  • (OCoLC)ocm40776863
Label
Nurses in Nazi Germany : moral choice in history, Bronwyn Rebekah McFarland-Icke
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-335) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Ch. 1. Ordinary Germans revisited: nurses, psychiatry, and morality in historical context -- Ch. 2. Neither riffraff nor saints: the ambivalent professionalization of the psychiatric nurse -- Ch. 3. Educating nurses in the spirit of the times: Weimar psychiatry in theory and practice -- Ch. 4. The evasiveness of the ideal: private and professional obstacles -- Ch. 5. Cleaning house in Wittenau: 1933 and the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service -- Ch. 6. Reeducating nurses in the spirit of the times: Geisteskrankenpflege in the service of national socialism
  • Ch. 7. Politics and professional life under national socialism -- Ch. 8. War, mass murder, and moral flight: psychiatric nursing, 1939-1945 -- Ch. 9. Concluding remarks
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xv, 343 pages
Isbn
9780691006659
Isbn Type
(cl. : alk. paper)
Lccn
99018151
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)40776863
  • (OCoLC)ocm40776863

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