Benedict Susan, Georges Jane M
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 29425, USA.
Nurs Inq. 2006 Dec;13(4):277-88. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2006.00330.x.
The medical experiments conducted on non-consenting prisoners of Nazi concentration camps during World War II necessitated the codification of principles to protect human subjects of research. Auschwitz was the largest and one of the most infamous of the camps and the site of numerous 'medical' experiments. This historical study uses primary source documents obtained from archives in England and Germany to describe one type of experiment carried out at Auschwitz - the sterilization experiments. The purpose of these experiments was to perfect a technique in which non-Aryans could be prevented from reproducing while still being able to work as slave laborers. These narratives regarding the sterilization experiments at Auschwitz are remarkable in that they contain previously undocumented information regarding the voluntary and involuntary involvement of nurses. Following these narratives, a discussion of ethics in relation to the Holocaust is presented with a specific focus on the work of Agamben. Implications of the Auschwitz narratives for the application of codes of ethical principles and contemporary nursing are discussed from a postmodernist perspective.
第二次世界大战期间，纳粹集中营在未经同意的囚犯身上进行的医学实验促使保护研究对象的原则得以编纂。奥斯维辛是最大且最臭名昭著的集中营之一，也是众多“医学”实验的场所。这项历史研究利用从英国和德国档案馆获取的原始资料文件，描述了在奥斯维辛进行的一种实验——绝育实验。这些实验的目的是完善一种技术，使非雅利安人在仍能作为奴隶劳工工作的同时无法生育。这些关于奥斯维辛绝育实验的叙述很值得注意，因为它们包含了此前未记录的关于护士自愿和非自愿参与的信息。在这些叙述之后，本文对与大屠杀相关的伦理进行了讨论，特别关注了阿甘本的著作。从后现代主义视角探讨了奥斯维辛叙述对伦理原则准则应用及当代护理的影响。
