Seeman Mary V
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario.
Can J Psychiatry. 2005 Mar;50(4):218-25. doi: 10.1177/070674370505000405.
To update Canadian psychiatrists on recent information from newly discovered Berlin archives about the actions of physicians, especially psychiatrists, during the era of National Socialism in Germany and to encourage introspection about the role of the medical profession, its relationship with government, and its vulnerability to manipulation by ideology and economic pressures.
This is a selective review of the literature on the collaboration of physicians, especially psychiatrists, in the sterilization, experimentation, and annihilation of patients with mental illness before and during World War II.
Directed to value the health of the nation over the care of individual patients and convinced that a hierarchy of worth distinguished one person from another, German psychiatrists were enlisted to commit atrocities during the Nazi period.
The values of care and compassion can be eroded; this knowledge demands constant vigilance.
向加拿大精神科医生介绍从新发现的柏林档案中获取的有关德国纳粹时期医生（尤其是精神科医生）行为的最新信息，并鼓励对医学职业的角色、其与政府的关系以及其易受意识形态和经济压力操纵的情况进行反思。
这是对关于二战前及二战期间医生（尤其是精神科医生）在精神疾病患者绝育、实验和灭绝方面合作的文献的选择性回顾。
德国精神科医生在纳粹时期被招募去实施暴行，他们被引导将国家的健康置于对个体患者的照料之上，并坚信一种价值等级制度区分了人与人。
关怀和同情的价值观可能会被侵蚀；这一认识需要持续保持警惕。
