Article ID: CBB599520573

Medicine in Theresienstadt (2020)

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Illness was a defining experience for prisoners of Nazi concentration camps and ghettos, and yet their medical history is missing; a startling lacuna, given the extensive research into medicine and the Holocaust. This article studies the medical staff, patients and diseases in the Theresienstadt ghetto. In examining medical care in extremis, it studies how the Central European Jewish doctors succeeded in providing comparably excellent health care for the inmates. The article studies the mentality, experience and the gendered power mechanisms that characterised the medical staff, the agency of the doctors as well as the hierarchies they assigned to patients. Finally, in exploring how the prisoner physicians made sense of Theresienstadt as a part of their medical career, I show what kind of historical protagonists are doctors.

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Authors & Contributors
Weindling, Paul J.
Stambolis, Barbara
Hlade, Josef
Halplin, Ross
Nichola Farron
Alexander Batthyány
Concepts
Jews
Medicine
Physicians; doctors
Nazism
Holocaust
Concentration camps
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
Medieval
10th century
Places
Germany
Austria
Poland
Italy
Europe
Yugoslavia
Institutions
The German Central Association of Homeopathic Physicians (DZVhA)
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