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Nurses in Nazi Germany
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by Bronwyn Rebekah McFarland-Icke
Sales Rank: 410648
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List Price: $55.00
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 304 pages
Published by: Princeton University PressEdition: 1st Edition November 1, 1999
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0691006652
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0691006659
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Product Review
When Nazi Germany is the question, there are no easy answers. History looks back on those dark days and screams, simply, "Why?" In this careful book, Bronwyn Rebekah McFarland-Icke looks at the Nazi euthanasia programs inflicted on the mentally and physically disabled between 1939 and 1945, which resulted in more than 100,000 deaths. Looking specifically at the psychiatric nurses who collaborated in treatments and experiments that abused or killed their subjects, McFarland-Icke finds an eclectic set of responses from a group of people who were, for the most part, ordinary Germans. "There is a great deal of evidence to suggest that people's choices in daily life did not, and could not, reflect a complete acceptance or rejection of National Socialism as a coherent entity representing a set of coherent principles," writes McFarland-Icke. This is a subtler work than Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners. Indeed, Nurses in Nazi Germany deliberately avoids sensational conclusions. Relying on previously neglected material, it is a sober study of human action under extraordinary pressure and strain. The focus of the book may make it seem specialized, but it addresses greater matters that concern anybody who is interested in the Holocaust, propaganda, and moral choices. --John J. Miller
From Library Journal
Many scholars have examined the "euthanasia" policies that took place in Nazi Germany. While most studies look at the role of higher-level administrators and physicians, McFarland-Icke questions how the lower-level staff, the "ordinary Germans," reacted to orders to participate in these programs. The author researched personnel files, trial testimonies, and articles from German nursing journals and textbooks to analyze the training and behavior of nurses employed in mental institutions. Based on her dissertation, the book describes the history of German psychiatric nursing in the years leading up to and including the National Socialism era. This analysis shows how nurses were treated and furnishes insight into the coping strategies they developed. Prior knowledge of Nazi terminology, history, and programs is assumed. Recommended for academic and bioethics collections.
-Tina Neville, Univ. of South Florida at St. Petersburg Lib.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Reader Reviews
Nurses in Nazi Germany is not a bad book by any means. It simply covers too many ideas in too little space. In other words, it lacks depth. In what could have been a ground breaking work, the authors seem compelled to encapsulate profound ideas into easily digestible sections. I'd get drawn into a chapter, only to have it end before a subject was fully developed. There are simply better books on T4. However, there IS reason to own Nurses in Nazi Germany. It provides one of the BEST explorations of the use of official language to re-educate medical personnel to accept the idea of "euthanasia"-- while at the same time completely distancing them from taking responsibility for the act of murder. As nurses in the Nazi hierarchy -- and indeed the medical profession as a whole at the time -- were expected to follow doctors' orders without question, there was a built-in "buffer" between the nurse and culpability. This distanced killing center nurses from moral responsibility as well. In a sense, the medical culture "forgave" them their actions because, technically, nurses didn't "know" what they were doing! This rationale comes up again and again in interviews with former killing center staff. It's chilling. The idea that language can act as a buffer between morality and murder is incredible to me. The language of "distancing" is dangerous -- and second nature to most of us. Even though I cannot rate this book highly, I think it does make a solid contribution to the study of medicine in Nazi Germany.
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