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Hájková, Anna (2020) Medicine in Theresienstadt. Social History of Medicine, 33 (1). pp. 79-105. doi:10.1093/shm/hky066 ISSN 0951-631X.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hky066
Abstract
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 characterized 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.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D731 World War II D History General and Old World > DD Germany R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History Faculty of Arts > History > Centre for the History of Medicine |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic), Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Public health, Jewish ghettos | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Social History of Medicine | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0951-631X | ||||||||
| Official Date: | February 2020 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 33 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 79-105 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/shm/hky066 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Social History of Medicine following peer review. The version of record Anna Hájková; Medicine in Theresienstadt, Social History of Medicine, , hky066, is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hky066 | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 29 June 2018 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 30 August 2020 |
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