Caring and Killing

Nursing and Psychiatric Practice in Germany, 1931–1943
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-8471-0062-1
Verlag: V&R unipress

Buch, Englisch, Band Band 007, 279 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 600 g

Reihe: Pflegewissenschaft und Pflegebildung

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foth, Thomas

Weitere Mitwirkende

Remmers, Hartmut

Lücke, Wolfgang Rainer

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Faschismus, Rechtsextremismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Remmers, Hartmut
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Remmers leitete die Abteilung Pflegewissenschaft an der Universität Osnabrück. Derzeit ist er Seniorprofessor im Institut für Gerontologie der Universität Heidelberg.

Prof Dr Thomas Foth teaches at the School of Nursing in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa.