Foth / Remmers Caring and Killing

Nursing and Psychiatric Practice in Germany, 1931–1943
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-8470-0062-4
Verlag: V&R unipress
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Kein

E-Book, Englisch, 279 Seiten

Reihe: Pflegewissenschaft und Pflegebildung.

Under the Nazi regime in Germany a calculated killing of chronic “mentally ill” patients took place. Nurses executed this program in their everyday practice. However, suspicions have been raised that psychiatric patients were also assassinated before and after the Nazi regime, suggesting that the motives for these killings must be investigated within psychiatric practice itself. This book highlights the mechanisms and scientific discourses in place that allowed nurses to perceive patients as unworthy of life. This study analyzes patient records as “inscriptions” that actively intervene in interactions in institutions and that create a specific reality on their own accord. The question is not whether the reality represented within the documents is true, but rather how documents worked in institutions and what their effects were. It is shown how nurses were actively involved in the construction of patients’ identities and how these “documentary identities” led to the death of thousands of humans.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foth, Thomas

Remmers, Hartmut

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lücke, Wolfgang Rainer

Remmers, Hartmut

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Faschismus, Rechtsextremismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Title Page;3
2;Copyright;4
3;Table of Contents;5
4;Body;9
5;Preface;9
6;Foreword;13
7;Abstract;15
8;List of tables;17
9;List of figures;19
10;Acknowledgements;21
11;Chapter 1: Introduction;23
12;Chapter 2: Historical Background of the Killing of Sick Persons;29
12.1;The Killings during the Nazi Regime;29
12.2;Deaths in Psychiatric Hospitals before and after National Socialism;32
12.3;Explanatory Approaches;34
12.3.1;“Euthanasia” as “final solution of the social question”;35
12.3.2;“Euthanasia” and a “Developmental Biopolitical Dictatorship”;37
12.4;Nursing Historiography;44
12.4.1;Nursing: A Powerless Occupation?;46
12.4.2;Mother House Concept;48
12.4.2.1;The Inner Organization of the Motherhouses;50
12.4.2.2;Pastoral Power;51
12.4.3;The Diversification of Nursing;53
12.4.4;Governing Through Nursing;55
12.4.5;The Impact of Nursing under the Nazi Regime;57
13;Chapter 3: The History of the Langenhorn Asylum from 1893 to 1945;61
13.1;Langenhorn before the First World War;61
13.1.1;The modification of the right to complain;64
13.1.2;Entry form to annual statistics at Langenhorn;70
13.2;The First Wave: Killing Sick Persons through Starvation;78
13.3;Langenhorn Between the Wars and During the Nazi Regime;83
13.4;Langenhorn During the Second World War;91
13.5;The Role of Nurses in Selecting Patients for Transfer;94
14;Chapter 4: Anna Maria Buller's First Admission in 1931: Analysis of the Record;97
14.1;The Content of the Record;101
14.2;The admission ritual and the nurses' reports;106
14.3;The Interplay between Nurses' and Psychiatrists' Notes;136
14.3.1;The text – reader conversation;138
14.3.2;The conversation between Nurses' and Psychiatrists' Notes;140
15;Chapter 5: Transfer to House 16 (March 1931);147
15.1;The Medical Record in House 16;147
15.2;The nurses' notes and the nurses' strategic position within psychiatric practice;154
15.3;Anna Maria Buller Becomes Dangerous and the War Against the Madness Continues;159
15.4;Enforcing the asylum's reality;176
15.5;The Record, the Script, the Dispositif, and the Subject;179
15.5.1;Fixing the subject function onto Anna Maria Buller;184
15.5.2;Psychiatry interpellates Buller as subject;189
15.6;The moralizing dimension;194
16;Chapter 6: The Intensification of the War against the Madness: Buller's Subsequent Admissions (1932–1943);197
16.1;The psychiatric dispositif;197
16.2;Buller's First Admission to the Asylum of Langenhorn;209
16.3;Bare Life;214
16.3.1;Bare Life and the C216
16.3.2;Critical Remarks;217
16.3.3;The Psychiatric Asylum as a C221
16.4;Buller's forced sterilization or the psychiatrist becomes a judge;223
16.5;Admission 1936;229
16.6;Admission 1940;233
16.6.1;Shock Treatments and Psychiatric Practice;236
16.6.2;Last Transfer to Langenhorn;246
16.7;Anna Maria Buller's way into death;249
16.8;Horrorism;251
17;Chapter 7: Conclusion;255
18;Appendix;263
18.1;Appendix 1 – Drawings;263
18.2;Appendix 2 – Admission Photographies of Anna Maria Buller;264
19;Bibliography;265
19.1;Primary Sources;265
19.2;Secondary Sources;266

Über Autor(innen)

Remmers, Hartmut
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Remmers ist seit 2002 Professor für Pflegewissenschaft an der Universität Osnabrück.