Medicine and Modernity by Manfred Berg
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.-
Nature and Power
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Life after Death
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Death in Berlin
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The Treaty of Versailles
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German Orientalism in the Age of Empire
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Criminals and their Scientists
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1968: The World Transformed
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Foreign in Two Homelands
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Making Germans
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America, the Vietnam War, and the World
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The Defortification of the German City, 16891866
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From Nurturing the Nation to Purifying the Volk
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Refugee Crises, 1945-2000
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Transatlantic Images and Perceptions
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Exiled Among Nations
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Money and Security
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Berlin - Washington, 1800-2000
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War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars
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Decades of Reconstruction
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Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770-1914
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Nuclear Threats, Nuclear Fear and the Cold War of the 1980s
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Nation and Loyalty in a German-Polish Borderland
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Inventing the Silent Majority in Western Europe and the United States
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Nazi Crimes and the Law
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A World at Total War
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A Past Renewed
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Soldiers of Labor
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Environmental Histories of the Cold War
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Paying for Hitler's War
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The Holocaust and the Germanization of Ukraine
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Transnational Nazism
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Austrian Banks in the Period of National Socialism
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Getting and Spending
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Historical Justice in International Perspective
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American Policy and the Reconstruction of West Germany, 19451955
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Heisenberg in the Atomic Age
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Identity and Intolerance
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German Merchants in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic
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Ostpolitik, 1969-1974
"..rich in information and insight....The book's contributions to the field should prove useful to anyone interested in the subject." Vincent A. Clark, German Studies Review
"But because it takes wider views, and contains some excellent new essays, I can recommend Medicine and Modernity to both historians and physicians." Nick Hopwood, Lancet
"We have, then, very rich fare. Medicine and Modernity brings recent German medical history to life, making it conveniently available for readers not able to read the growing literature in German. If there are any lessons in history, this collection may be a good place to look for them." Gert H. Brieger, MD, Journal of the American Medical Association
"...this collection of essays is a welcome addition to the otherwise sparse English-language literature on the history of German medicine." Eric J. Engstrom, Jrnl of Interdisciplinary History
"But because it takes wider views, and contains some excellent new essays, I can recommend Medicine and Modernity to both historians and physicians." Nick Hopwood, Lancet
"We have, then, very rich fare. Medicine and Modernity brings recent German medical history to life, making it conveniently available for readers not able to read the growing literature in German. If there are any lessons in history, this collection may be a good place to look for them." Gert H. Brieger, MD, Journal of the American Medical Association
"...this collection of essays is a welcome addition to the otherwise sparse English-language literature on the history of German medicine." Eric J. Engstrom, Jrnl of Interdisciplinary History
Cocks, Geoffrey: -
Geoffrey Cocks is Royal G. Hall Professor of History at Albion College. He is the editor of The Curve of Life: Correspondence of Heinz Kohut, and the co-editor of Medicine and Modernity and German Professions, 1800-1950.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521564113 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521564115 |
| Title | Medicine and Modernity |
| Author | Manfred Berg |
| Series | Publications Of The German Historical Institute |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1997-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 254 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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