An ethics of testimony: prisoner nurses at Auschwitz.
This historical research report presents and analyzes 2 recently identified narratives of women who underwent sterilization experiments at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. A description of the historical and contextual background is presented in which involvement of the prisoner nurse occurred in the sterilization experiments. Using a critical feminist perspective, the ethics of nursing involvement are discussed in these experiments, with an emphasis on the political dimension. Salient implications are explored for contemporary nursing.
Georges
Jane M
JM
Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, University of San Diego, CA 92110, USA. jgeorges@sandiego.edu
Benedict
Susan
S
D000328:Adult; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000941:ethics*; D028661:Complicity; D003209:Concentration Camps; D026690:Ethics, Clinical; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005260:Female; D019513:Feminism; D017767:Holocaust; D045809:Human Rights Abuses / Q000941:ethics*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D028683:National Socialism; D033281:Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation / Q000941:ethics*; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology; D013244:Sterilization, Involuntary / Q000941:ethics; D013245:Sterilization, Reproductive / Q000941:ethics*; D017741:Survivors; D014104:Torture; D047789:World War II