Nurses and the sterilization experiments of Auschwitz: A postmodernist perspective

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 277-288

  Benedict, Susan ^a   Georges, Jane M ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Experimentation; Human subjects; Nazi; Nursing; Postmodernism

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTION; CRIME; GERMANY; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JEW; MEDICAL ETHICS; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING STAFF; PHILOSOPHY; POLAND; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PRISON; REVIEW; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

CODES OF ETHICS; CONCENTRATION CAMPS; ETHICS, NURSING; GERMANY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; JEWS; NARRATION; NATIONAL SOCIALISM; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING STAFF; POLAND; POSTMODERNISM; STERILIZATION, INVOLUNTARY; WAR CRIMES;

EID: 33750930876     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: 14401800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2006.00330.x     Document Type: Review

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