Main 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.

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