UID:
almafu_9960119960502883
Format:
1 online resource (vii, 242 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-05268-3
Series Statement:
Publications of the German Historical Institute
Content:
This collection of essays addresses, in a comprehensive and critical fashion, fundamental issues in the history of medicine in modern Germany. The essays also investigate important continuities and discontinuities in German history, and between Germany and the West. The central focus is on the professionalisation of modern medicine and the medicalisation of modern society. The problem of Nazi Germany is addressed in many of the essays, partly because of its influence on the debate over the nature of modern German government and society in relation to Western social, political, and economic development. Other topics include: the place of hospitals in the early nineteenth century, various forms of Social Darwinism, the politics of state-run health insurance, the influence of eugenics, social control and 'shell shock' in World War I, sterilization and euthanasia, Nazi experimentation, the abortion debate, and the role of former Nazis in the postwar medical leadership.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction / Geoffrey Cocks -- 1. To Benefit the Poor and Advance Medical Science: Hospitals and Hospital Care in Germany, 1820-1870 / Johanna Bleker -- 2. From Traditional Individualism to Collective Professionalism: State, Patient, Compulsory Health Insurance and the Panel Doctor Question in Germany, 1883-1931 / Alfons Labisch -- 3. In Search of German Social Darwinism: The History and Historiography of a Concept / Richard J. Evans -- 4. Modern German Doctors: A Failure of Professionalization / Charles E. McClelland -- 5. The Mentally Ill Patient Caught between the State's Demands and the Professional Interests of Psychiatrist / Heiz- Peter Schiedebach -- 6. Rationalizing the Therapeutic Arsenal: German Neuropsychiatry in World War I / Paul Lerner -- 7. Sterilzation and "Medical" Massacres in National Socialist Germany: Ethics, Politics, and the Law / Gisela Bock -- 8. The Old as New: The Nuremberg Doctors' Trial and Medicine in Modern Germany / Geoffrey Cocks -- 9. The Debate that Will Not End: The Politics of Abortion in Germany from Weimar to National Socialism and the Poswar Period / Atina Grossmann -- 10. The Sewering Scandle of 1993 and the German Medical Establishment / Michael H. Kater.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-52456-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-56411-5
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139052689
