Article ID: CBB001220568

Konjunkturen der deutschen Gelbfieberforschung in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts: Akteure und Interessen (2008)

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This article examines for the case of yellow fever research in Germany in the first half of the 20th century how political and military conditions affected the interests of scientific research. As a tropical disease, yellow fever was unknown in Germany and very rare in the German colonies and thus of little scientific or political interest. But this changed once the National Socialists began pursuing their wars of conquest. In preparation for a new colonial empire and a military mission in Africa, yellow fever research became increasingly important. The chief beneficiary of this development was the Robert Koch-Institute in Berlin, where Eugen Haagen worked after his time as a researcher in the Yellow Fever Laboratory in New York. In collaboration with the army and the industry, he used human experiments in his efforts to develop a vaccine for mass production. Ultimately, the vaccine's application was prevented by the German surrender in North Africa.

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Authors & Contributors
Whiteside, Shaun
John Christopher
Farrell, Ryan Alexander
Ohler, Norman
Zimmermann, Volker
Zeidman, Lawrence A.
Concepts
World War II
National Socialism
Medicine
Science and politics
Medicine and the military; medicine in war
Medicine and ethics
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Germany
United States
England
Netherlands
Norway
Japan
Institutions
Reichsuniversität Strassburg
Institut für Psychologie und Klinische Psychologie
Luftwaffe (Germany)
Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG)
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Instituten
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
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