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- Title
Medicine in Theresienstadt.
- Authors
Hájková, Anna
- 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 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.
- Subjects
MEDICAL care of prisoners; JEWISH ghettos; JEWISH physicians; JEWISH nurses; TEREZIN (Czech Republic : Concentration camp)
- Publication
Social History of Medicine, 2020, Vol 33, Issue 1, p79
- ISSN
0951-631X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/shm/hky066