Medical memories and experiences in postwar East Germany: treatment of the past

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...

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Main Author: Wahl, Markus (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2019
Series:Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Routledge studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine
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Summary: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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 06, 2019)
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780367138714
0367138719
9781000018288
1000018288
9781000011760
1000011763
9781000004922
1000004929

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