An ethics of testimony: Prisoner nurses at Auschwitz

Advances in Nursing Science

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 161-169

  Georges, Jane M ^a   Benedict, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical feminist; Holocaust; Nursing; Postmodernist; Sterilization; Suffering

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPLICITY; CONTRACEPTION; CRIME; ETHICS; FEMALE; FEMINISM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NURSE; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PRISON; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SURVIVOR; TORTURE; WAR;

ADULT; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMPLICITY; CONCENTRATION CAMPS; ETHICS, CLINICAL; ETHICS, NURSING; FEMALE; FEMINISM; HOLOCAUST; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES; HUMANS; MALE; NATIONAL SOCIALISM; NONTHERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; NURSES; PRISONERS; STERILIZATION, INVOLUNTARY; STERILIZATION, REPRODUCTIVE; SURVIVORS; TORTURE; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 33646931496     PISSN: 01619268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00012272-200604000-00009     Document Type: Article

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