The State of Health Illness in Nazi Germany

by Cocks, Geoffrey Campbell

• ISBN13: 9780199695676
• ISBN10: 0199695679
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-03-02
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

A great deal is known about the history of medicine in Nazi Germany, but much less about the experience of illness and health in the Third Reich. Studying the intersection of modern body, mind, self, and medicine in Germany and occupied Europe under Nazism, The State of Health constitutes a social history of illness, one attuned both to the peculiarities of the Nazi experience and likenesses to a broader Western narrative of the subject.

Author Biography

Geoffrey Campbell Cocks is the author of Psychotherapy in the Third Reich (1985, 1997), Treating Mind and Body (1998), and The Wolf at the Door (2004) which was a TLS 'International Book of the Year' in 2004. He is the editor of Psycho/History (with Travis Crosby, 1987), German Professions, 1800-1950 (with Konrad Jarausch, 1990), The Curve of Life (1994), Medicine and Modernity (with Manfred Berg, 1997), and Depth of Field (with James Diedrick and Glenn Perusek, 2006).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
List of Abbreviations	p. xi
Sick in the Night	p. 1
A Golgotha of Ethics	p. 3
Every Unhappy Country is Unhappy in its Own Way	p. 10
The Body of Knowledge	p. 20
The Long Nervous Nineteenth Century	p. 29
The Body Politic	p. 33
A Race of Giants and Strength and Health	p. 45
The State of Health	p. 59
Me and We	p. 67
Party Over	p. 72
The Picture of Health	p. 91
The Body of Life	p. 105
Stomachs Like Party Badges	p. 105
Minding the Meat Factory	p. 116
The Body of Work	p. 126
The Body in Question	p. 134
'They learn what it means to work'	p. 139
Chemical Carrot, Chemical Whip	p. 142
PersO is still Persil	p. 143
The Leukoplast Bomber	p. 148
The Chemical Whip	p. 165
Lifted… up on a cloud of Lysol	p. 170
The State of War	p. 172
The War at Home	p. 173
The War Abroad	p. 202
The Body of Death	p. 219
Suffer the Children	p. 221
Shoah	p. 225
Body Blows	p. 236
Modern Pain and Nazi Panic	p. 238
The Other Leukoplast Bomber	p. 248
Self-Service	p. 253
A Time to Love and a Time to Drink	p. 258
The Third Reich in Ruins	p. 265
Select Bibliography	p. 272
Index	p. 283
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