Nursing during National Socialism
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Nursing during National Socialism
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number179.7/0017
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]09356c
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]New York, New York, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Routledge
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2014
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp27-47
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]Series title[nb-NO]Routledge studies in modern European history ; 20
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]9780415896658
NotesArticle from the book 'Nurses and midwives in Nazi Germany: the "Euthanasia Programs"pp47-47
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
Although nursing has traditionally been regarded as a caring profession, nurses actively and intentionally killed thousands of their most vulnerable patients - children and adults with mental and physical disabilities. Some research has explored how the caring professions could become not only supporters of a government's policy, but also its enthusiastic implementers. One answer has been to blame the specific situation in Germany at the time