Article ID: CBB001220452

Die “Krüppelfürsorge” in der Weimarer Republik. Zwischen eigenem Standpunkt und diskursiver Anschlussfähigkeit an eugenische Argumentationsstrukturen (2011)

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The `Krüppelfürsorge' during the Weimar Republic. Oscillating between an Own Position and the Adoption of Eugenic Arguments. This article examines the discourse about physical disability led by the German `Krüppelfürsor-ge'. It deals with the exhibition GeSoLei (Gesundheitspflege, soziale Fürsorge and Leibesübungen), which took place in Düsseldorf in 1926. The GeSoLei was one of the most popular platforms of the healthy and aesthetic body in the 1920s. It stood in the context of the German `national recovery' after World War I and collected all types of medical, social and athletic professionals to expose their work to a broader audience. Also representatives of the so called `Krüppelfürsorge' presented themselves and at the same time their perspective on people with physical disabilities on this exhibition. The article points out the ambivalent character of their perspective and shows the mixture of including and excluding people with physical disabilities, which was typical for the view of the `Krüppelfürsorge'. It demonstrates that the `Krüppelfürsorger' on the one hand were quite progressive towards people with disabilities, but on the other hand showed a striking openness towards eugenic values.

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Authors & Contributors
Kravetz, Melissa
Fangerau, Heiner
Beer, Ralf
Berez, Thomas M.
Bernstein, Frances L.
Bryant, Thomas
Journals
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
European Legacy
Journal of Social History
Journal of the History of Biology
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Medical History
Publishers
Berghahn Books
Campus Verlag
Franz Steiner Verlag
Insegna del Giglio
W. W. Norton & Co.
Edizioni San Paolo
Concepts
Eugenics
Public health
National Socialism
Medicine
Medicine and ethics
Birth control; contraception; sterilization
People
Abderhalden, Emil
Boeters, Gustav Emil
Mohr, Max
Moll, Albert
Rüdin, Ernst
Jaensch, Walther (1889-1950)
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
Places
Germany
Weimar Republic (1919-1933)
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Institutions
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Anthropologie, Menschliche Erblehre und Eugenik
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