Medicine and Modernity - Public Health and Medical Care in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany (Paperback, Revised)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Publications of the German Historical Institute
Release date:	August 2002
First published:	1997
Editors:	Manfred Berg • Geoffrey Cocks
Dimensions:	229 x 153 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	256
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-52456-8
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General
LSN:	0-521-52456-3
Barcode:	9780521524568

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