Explore: Killing Of The Mentally Ill

1The Ethics of Killing

Problems at the Margins of Life

By Jeff McMahan

Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, Jeff McMahan looks at various issues, including abortion, infanticide, the killing of animals, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.

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• Title: The Ethics of Killing
• Author: Jeff McMahan
• Language: English
• Number of Pages: 555
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publish Date: 2002
• Genres: Medical

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• Google Books ID: 9gsJMztLvQoC
• ISBN-13: 9780195079982
• ISBN-10: 0195079981
• All ISBNs: 9780195079982 - 0195079981

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The Historical Uncanny explores how certain memories become inscribed into the heritage of a country or region while others are suppressed or forgotten. In response to the erasure of historical memories that discomfit a public's self-understanding, this book proposes the historical uncanny as that which resists reification precisely because it cannot be assimilated to dominant discourses of commemoration. Focusing on the problems of representation and reception, the book explores memorials for two marginalized aspects of Holocaust: the Nazi euthanasia program directed against the mentally ill and disabled and the Fascist persecution of Slovenes, Croats, and Jews in and around Trieste. Reading these memorials together with literary and artistic texts, Knittel redefines "sites of memory" as assemblages of cultural artifacts and discourses that accumulate over time; they emerge as a physical and a cultural space that is continually redefined, rewritten, and re-presented. In bringing perspectives from disability studies and postcolonialism to the question of memory, Knittel unsettles our understanding of the Holocaust and its place in the culture of contemporary Europe.

3Caring and Killing

Nursing and Psychiatric Practice in Germany, 1931-1943

By Thomas Foth

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.

“Caring and Killing” Metadata:

• Title: Caring and Killing
• Author: Thomas Foth
• Language: English
• Number of Pages: 282
• Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
• Publish Date: 2013
• Genres: History

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• Google Books ID: oPhMNMwce00C
• ISBN-13: 9783847100621
• ISBN-10: 3847100629
• All ISBNs: 9783847100621 - 3847100629

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4The Gallery of Miracles and Madness

Insanity, Art and Hitler's First Mass-Murder Programme

By Charlie English

'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally ill. In the first years of the Weimar Republic, the German psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn gathered a remarkable collection of works by schizophrenic patients that would astonish and delight the world. The Prinzhorn collection, as it was called, inspired a new generation of artists, including Paul Klee, Max Ernst and Salvador Dali. What the doctor could not have known, however, was that these works would later be used to prepare the ground for mass-murder. Soon after his rise to power, Hitler--a failed artist of the old school--declared war on modern art. The Nazis staged giant 'Degenerate Art' shows to ridicule the avant-garde, and seized and destroyed the cream of Germany's modern art collections. This action was mere preparation, however, for the even more sinister campaign Hitler would later wage against so-called "degenerate" people, and Prinzhorn's artists were caught up in both. Bringing together inspirational art history, genius and madness, and the wanton cruelty of the fanatical "artist-Führer", this astonishing story lays bare the culture war that paved the way for Hitler's first extermination programme, the psychiatric Holocaust.

'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally ill. In the first years of the Weimar Republic, the German psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn gathered a remarkable collection of works by schizophrenic patients that would astonish and delight the world. The Prinzhorn collection, as it was called, inspired a new generation of artists, including Paul Klee, Max Ernst and Salvador Dali. What the doctor could not have known, however, was that these works would later be used to prepare the ground for mass-murder. Soon after his rise to power, Hitler--a failed artist of the old school--declared war on modern art. The Nazis staged giant 'Degenerate Art' shows to ridicule the avant-garde, and seized and destroyed the cream of Germany's modern art collections. This action was mere preparation, however, for the even more sinister campaign Hitler would later wage against so-called "degenerate" people, and Prinzhorn's artists were caught up in both. Bringing together inspirational art history, genius and madness, and the wanton cruelty of the fanatical "artist-Führer", this astonishing story lays bare the culture war that paved the way for Hitler's first extermination programme, the psychiatric Holocaust.

6Le train des fous

By Pierre Durand

'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally ill. In the first years of the Weimar Republic, the German psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn gathered a remarkable collection of works by schizophrenic patients that would astonish and delight the world. The Prinzhorn collection, as it was called, inspired a new generation of artists, including Paul Klee, Max Ernst and Salvador Dali. What the doctor could not have known, however, was that these works would later be used to prepare the ground for mass-murder. Soon after his rise to power, Hitler--a failed artist of the old school--declared war on modern art. The Nazis staged giant 'Degenerate Art' shows to ridicule the avant-garde, and seized and destroyed the cream of Germany's modern art collections. This action was mere preparation, however, for the even more sinister campaign Hitler would later wage against so-called "degenerate" people, and Prinzhorn's artists were caught up in both. Bringing together inspirational art history, genius and madness, and the wanton cruelty of the fanatical "artist-Führer", this astonishing story lays bare the culture war that paved the way for Hitler's first extermination programme, the psychiatric Holocaust.

7L'extermination douce

By Max Lafont

Entre 1940 et 1944, 40 000 malades mentaux qui ne devaient pas mourir sont morts de faim dans les hôpitaux psychiatriques français. Depuis près de 60 ans cette vérité réapparaît périodiquement avant de s'enfouir, à nouveau, au fond des consciences pour petit à petit se laisser oublier. Il revient à Max Lafont d'avoir publié la première analyse d'ensemble de ce phénomène.

Entre 1940 et 1944, 40 000 malades mentaux qui ne devaient pas mourir sont morts de faim dans les hôpitaux psychiatriques français. Depuis près de 60 ans cette vérité réapparaît périodiquement avant de s'enfouir, à nouveau, au fond des consciences pour petit à petit se laisser oublier. Il revient à Max Lafont d'avoir publié la première analyse d'ensemble de ce phénomène.

9Die Belasteten

>Euthanasie

By Götz Aly

Entre 1940 et 1944, 40 000 malades mentaux qui ne devaient pas mourir sont morts de faim dans les hôpitaux psychiatriques français. Depuis près de 60 ans cette vérité réapparaît périodiquement avant de s'enfouir, à nouveau, au fond des consciences pour petit à petit se laisser oublier. Il revient à Max Lafont d'avoir publié la première analyse d'ensemble de ce phénomène.

10Dokumente zur "Euthanasie"

By Ernst Klee

Entre 1940 et 1944, 40 000 malades mentaux qui ne devaient pas mourir sont morts de faim dans les hôpitaux psychiatriques français. Depuis près de 60 ans cette vérité réapparaît périodiquement avant de s'enfouir, à nouveau, au fond des consciences pour petit à petit se laisser oublier. Il revient à Max Lafont d'avoir publié la première analyse d'ensemble de ce phénomène.