Paediatrics in the Reichsuniversität Straßburg

Children's Medicine at a Bastion of Nazi Ideology

AISLING SHALVEY

Presents the first in-depth account of previously unknown patient files from Nazi paediatric cases.

Eschews the usual top-down approach, making patient experience central to the analysis.

Reveals how sick children were affected by Nazi ideology.

Examines the experience of paediatric patients, and the staff who determined their treatment, in the Reichsuniversitat Strasbourg, a Nazi-run hospital in occupied France from 1941 to 1944.

PRAISE FOR PAEDIATRICS IN THE REICHSUNIVERSITÄT STRASSBURG

This fascinating and highly readable book draws its rich canvas of detail from previously never explored primary sources and is an essential addition to the current understanding of medicine during this time period.

Sabine Hildebrandt, Associate Professor of Paediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Based on a trove of recently-discovered and previously un-researched files, Aisling Shalvey has given us a compelling microstudy of how Nazi paediatrics functioned at the local and institutional levels. She depicts a fascinating intersection between health and ideology, wherein the regime’s criminality and harmful intent co-existed with otherwise mundane and regular healthcare. The results are essential reading for all students of health and welfare during the Second World War.

John Paul Newman, Associate Professor in Twentieth-century European History, Maynooth University

Biographical Note

Aisling Shalvey completed her BA at Maynooth University, and her MA at Oxford Brookes University. Her PhD at the University of Strasbourg was on the topic of paediatrics under National Socialism as part of a commission on the history of the Reichsuniversität Straßburg. She currently works at the Leopoldina as a researcher on the project studying victims of brain research during National Socialism.

SIZE

PAGES 252pp

BIC SUBJECTS

MJW, JPHX, MBX

BISAC SUBJECTS

MED069000, POL042030, MED039000

RIGHTS

World