Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-335) and index.
Contents
Ordinary Germans revisited : nurses, psychiatry, and morality in historical context -- Neither riffraff nor saints : the ambivalent professionalization of the psychiatric nurse -- Educating nurses in the spirit of the times : Weimar psychiatry in theory and practice -- The evasiveness of the ideal : private and professional obstacles -- Cleaning house in Wittenau : 1933 and the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service -- Reeducating nurses in the spirit of the times : Geisteskrankenpflege in the service of national socialism
Politics and professional life under national socialism -- War, mass murder, and moral flight : psychiatric nursing, 1939-1945 -- Concluding remarks.
