Dangers of ambivalence: lessons learned from the Nazi era.
This article seeks to raise awareness among learning disability practitioners of actions carried out by healthcare professionals at the Am Spiegelgrund clinic in Vienna between 1940 and 1945, which led to the deaths of hundreds of children with mental and physical disabilities. The author suggests t...
| Publicado en: | Learning Disability Practice Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 16 - 21 |
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| Formato: | pictorial Journal Article |
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Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom (The)
Feb2013
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| Sumario: | This article seeks to raise awareness among learning disability practitioners of actions carried out by healthcare professionals at the Am Spiegelgrund clinic in Vienna between 1940 and 1945, which led to the deaths of hundreds of children with mental and physical disabilities. The author suggests that understanding and remembrance of such historical events are essential for safeguarding patients now and in the future. Without a historical 'yardstick', professionals may be unable to recognise individual or collective actions that threaten the human and civil rights of society's most vulnerable members. |
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