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

Prüll, Livia (Author)

NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Volume: 30
Issue: 1
Pages: 63-88

DOI: 10.1007/s00048-022-00325-y

URI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00048-022-00325-y

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Medicine and society Ableism Diabetes History of medicine, as a discipline Patients 20th century, late West Germany

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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