Medical memories and experiences in postwar East Germany : treatments of the past
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Medical memories and experiences in postwar East Germany : treatments of the past
(Studies in the history of science, technology and medicine / edited by John Krige)
Routledge, 2019
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
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 Fursorgeheim Leuben in Postwar Dresden
Epilogue
Appendix
Index
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