Hitler's psychiatrists: Healers and researchers turned executioners and its relevance today

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 30-37

  Strous, Rael ^a  

^a BEER YAAKOV MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRIME; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE STERILIZATION; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMANISM; MALE STERILIZATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; OCCUPATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIST; RESEARCH; REVIEW;

EUTHANASIA; FAMOUS PERSONS; GERMANY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOLOCAUST; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALING; PSYCHIATRY; RESEARCH;

EID: 33644785786     PISSN: 10673229     EISSN: 14657309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10673220500519664     Document Type: Review

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