Article ID: CBB453891710

Between Stigmatization and Acceptance: Diabetic Patients as Civil Servants in West Germany, 1950–1970 (2022)

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Patient history has enriched medical history since about the 1980s. But there are still research gaps in certain periods and themes, especially in topics related to the medical history of West Germany. This paper deals with the efforts of patients, lay persons, and medical advisors (diabetologists) to enable diabetics to secure employment as civil servants (Verbeamtung). Attention will be payed to the fact that this success relied on the activities of mediators, who translated and conveyed the patients’ interests to society at large. This victory was concordant with similar initiatives in other fields of the diabetic life, including sexuality and lifestyle management. Therefore, efforts to achieve civil servant employment for diabetic patients were constitutive of a broader initiative that changed the image of the disease and promoted the integration of diabetic patients into West German society.

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Authors & Contributors
Abel, Emily K.
Anderson, Stuart
Coker, Richard
Eschenbruch, Nicholas
Hofer, Hans-Georg
Hurley, Dan
Journals
History of Psychiatry
Korean Journal of Medical History
Medizinhistorisches Journal
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Journal of Medical Biography
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Publishers
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota
Kaplan Publishing
Rutgers University Press
The University of North Carolina Press
Presses Universitaires de Rennes
Concepts
Medicine and society
Patients
Medicine
Public health
Diabetes
History of medicine, as a discipline
People
Foucault, Michel
Higby, Gregory J.
Moscati, Giuseppe
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Places
United States
West Germany
Korea
Great Britain
Canada
France
Institutions
Scottish Union of Mental Patients
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