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Melissa Kravetz, “Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany: Maternalism, Eugenics and Professional Identity” (U Toronto Press, 2019) (2020)

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In her new book, Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany: Maternalism, Eugenics and Professional Identity (University of Toronto Press, 2019), Melissa Kravetz examines how German women physicians gained a foothold in the medical profession during the Weimar and Nazi periods, Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany reveals the continuity in rhetoric, strategy, and tactics of female doctors who worked under both regimes. Additionally, she explains how and why women occupied particular fields within the medical profession, how they presented themselves in their professional writing, and how they reconciled their medical perspectives with their views of the Weimar and later the Nazi state.

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Authors & Contributors
Kravetz, Melissa
Weiss, Sheila Faith
Beer, Ralf
Berez, Thomas M.
Blecker, Johanna
Bluhm, Agnes
Journals
Social History of Medicine
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Central European History
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
German History
Histoire des Sciences Médicales
Publishers
Campus Verlag
Matthiesen
Oxford University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Concepts
National Socialism
Eugenics
Physicians; doctors
Women in medicine
Medicine
Medicine and ethics
People
Abderhalden, Emil
Blacker, Carlos P.
Bluhm, Agnes
Boeters, Gustav Emil
Mohr, Max
Moll, Albert
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Places
Germany
Weimar Republic (1919-1933)
Vienna (Austria)
Great Britain
Hamburg (Germany)
Institutions
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Anthropologie, Menschliche Erblehre und Eugenik
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