Holmes C A
School of Nursing, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia.
Int Hist Nurs J. 1996 Autumn;2(1):5-24.
This paper suggest that it is crucial at the present time to look back and consider the role of nurses and the health-care system in the development of Nazi Germany. The paper points out that medical involvement in the Holocaust was extensive and underwritten by the subversion of science to political ends. Evidence is amassed which points to dangerous trends in the conduct of contemporary medicine and to the continuing capacity for institutionally endorsed abuses of human rights. It is suggested that nursing examine its role in the implementation of Nazi policies, so that its continuing susceptibility to political subversion can be recognised, evaluated and neutralised.
本文认为，当下回顾并思考护士及医疗保健系统在纳粹德国发展过程中所扮演的角色至关重要。该文指出，医学在大屠杀中的参与程度广泛，且是通过将科学用于政治目的来实现的。文中收集了诸多证据，这些证据表明当代医学行为存在危险趋势，以及机构认可的侵犯人权行为仍有发生的可能。文章建议护理行业审视其在纳粹政策实施过程中所扮演的角色，以便能够认识、评估并消除其持续易受政治颠覆影响的状况。
