To protect or to publish: confidentiality and the fate of the mentally ill victims of Nazi euthanasia

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 361-364

  Strous, R D ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOETHICS; CONFIDENTIALITY; ETHICS; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; HISTORY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JEW; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL PATIENT; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLISHING; VICTIM;

BIOETHICAL ISSUES; CONFIDENTIALITY; CRIME VICTIMS; FAMILY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; JEWS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MENTALLY DISABLED PERSONS; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; NATIONAL SOCIALISM; POPULATION GROUPS; PUBLISHING; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 67249118649     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: 14734257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jme.2008.026849     Document Type: Article

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