Medicine and Modernity Public Health and Medical Care in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Germany

This collection addresses, in a comprehensive and critical fashion, fundamental issues in the history of medicine in modern Germany and considers the nature of modern German government and society in relation to Western social, political, and economic development. The central focus is on the professionalization of modern medicine and the medicalization of modern society. The problem of Nazi Germany is a reoccurring theme. Other topics include: hospitals in early nineteenth century society, Social Darwinism, state-run health insurance, eugenics, social control, Nazi experimentation, and the postwar medical leadership.Berg, Manfred is the author of 'Medicine and Modernity Public Health and Medical Care in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Germany' with ISBN 9780521524568 and ISBN 0521524563.