Killing while caring: The nurses of Hadamar

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-79

  Benedict, Susan ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b RALPH H JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISABLED PERSON; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; PATIENT CARE; RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIALIZATION; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; GERMANY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HISTORY; HOMICIDE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL HOSPITAL; NURSING STAFF; POLITICAL SYSTEM; WAR AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; WAR AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DISABLED PERSONS; ETHICS, NURSING; EUTHANASIA; GERMANY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOMICIDE; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; NATIONAL SOCIALISM; NURSING STAFF;

EID: 0037977061     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01612840305303     Document Type: Article

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