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Full-Text Articles in Health Law and Policy
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2003
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2003
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2003
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2003
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Killing For The State: The Darkest Side Of American Nursing, Dave Holmes, Cary H. Federman
Killing For The State: The Darkest Side Of American Nursing, Dave Holmes, Cary H. Federman
Department of Justice Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
The aim of this article is to bring to the attention of the international nursing community the discrepancy between a pervasive ‘caring’ nursing discourse and the most unethical nursing practice in the United States. In this article, we present a duality: the conflict in American prisons between nursing ethics and the killing machinery. The US penal system is a setting in which trained healthcare personnel practices the extermination of life. We look upon the sanitization of death work as an application of healthcare professionals’ skills and knowledge and their appropriation by the state to serve its ends. A review of …