Medical Memories and Experiences in Postwar East Germany

Treatments of the Past

Markus Wahl (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-78619-9 (ISBN)

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This book draws on the example of the major cities of Leipzig and Dresden to illustrate continuity and change in public health in the German Democratic Republic. Based on archival work, it will demonstrate how members of the medical profession successfully manipulated their pre-1945 past in order to continue practising, leading to persistence in the social conception of medicine and disease after Communism took hold. This was particularly evident in attitudes towards and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and the pathology of deviant behaviour among young people.

Markus Wahl is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Robert Bosch Stiftung in Stuttgart, Germany. In his current project, he investigates the experiences of patients with diabetes, sexually transmitted diseases, and alcohol addiction in the socialist healthcare system of East Germany. In 2017, he received his PhD from the University of Kent. His most recent publication is ‘The Workhouse Dresden-Leuben After 1945: A Microstudy of Local Continuities in Postwar East Germany’, Journal of Contemporary History (Online First: published 26 July 2018). In general, his research interests include Modern German History, Social History of Medicine, Socialist History, Memory and Addiction Studies as well as broader studies of sexual health in the past and around the world.

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Introduction: Medical Memories and Experiences

Chapter 1

Treating the Past: Narratives of the Medical Profession after 1945

Chapter 2

Treatments from the Past: Continuities in Treating Venereal Diseases

Chapter 3

Treatments for the Past? ‘War Children’ and the New State

Chapter 4

Institutionalised Treatments of the Past: The Fürsorgeheim Leuben in Postwar Dresden

Epilogue

Appendix

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2021
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-367-78619-2 / 0367786192
ISBN-13	978-0-367-78619-9 / 9780367786199
Zustand	Neuware