Caring and Killing [Pflegewissenschaft und Pflegebildung]: Nursing and Psychiatric Practice in Germany, 1931–1943 - Hardcover

Thomas Foth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3847100629 ISBN 13: 9783847100621

Verlag: V&R Unipress, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

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

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: V&R Unipress
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3847100629
• ISBN 13: 9783847100621
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 279
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: De Gruyter GmbH; productsafety@degruyterbrill.com; ; Genthiner Straße 13; Berlin; 10785; Deutschland