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The Plot against Cancer: Heredity and Cancer in German and Dutch Medicine, 1933--1945 (2008)

Snelders, Stephen (Author)

Gesnerus
Volume: 65
Pages: 42--55

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Eugenics Hereditary diseases Medicine National Socialism Cancer; tumors Hygiene Medicine and politics 20th century, early Netherlands Germany

In the Third Reich hereditarian approaches and their eugenic implications seemed to offer possibilities for fundamental progress in the fight against cancer. The concept of a hereditary predisposition for cancer, Krebsbereitschaft, led to flexible multifactor approaches including proposals for both eugenic and social-hygenic measures. These approaches were not typical of German medicine alone. In the Netherlands hereditarian approaches did not play a central role in the 1930s. they lacked institutional support in a country where health polcies were characterized by indirect strategies working through intermediaries such as genreal practitioners. Howerever, potential the elements for similar anti-cancer politices as in Germany were present. This development was blocked because of the political radicalization during the war and German defeat.

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