The State of Health: Illness in Nazi Germany explores and analyses
the experience of illness in German society under National
Socialism. As is well known, the Nazis mobilised medicine for
purposes of 'racial' cultivation and extermination. What has been
much less understood is that the experience of health and illness
in the Third Reich also marked a crucial juncture in the history of
the modern self and body in Germany and the West. The secular and
material bourgeois self was a product of the industrial and
commercial society Germany had become before Hitler. The peculiarly
rapid pace of social change in Germany, combined with a series of
military, political, and economic disasters after 1914, created an
environment of heightened sensitivity and anxiety concerning the
relationship between individual and community. This historical
environment also aggravated concerns about health and illness of
the morbid, mortal, and sexual body and mind in which the modern
self was lodged. The racialist policies of the Third Reich worsened
popular anxiety over illness and health. And while Nazism exploited
popular longings for 'national community,' the modern self of
material pleasure, appetite, and desire too would be prop as well
as problem for the Hitler regime. Drawing from the rich historical
literature on modern Germany and the Third Reich, as well as on
previously unexamined primary sources from over forty archives, The
State of Health documents vital continuities and discontinuities in
the history of modern Germany and the West, up to and beyond the
Nazi years. In exploring the social, medical, and discursive spaces
of health and illness in the Third Reich, Geoffrey Cocks
illuminates significant and fateful experiences in peace and war
with medicine, doctors, and drugs; work; collaboration; constraint
and agency; self and other; persecution, enslavement, and
extermination; gender and sexuality; pain, injury, madness, and
death; and historical memory and amnesia.
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