Jessica Reinisch

The Perils of Peace

The Public Health Crisis in Occupied Germany

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Produktbeschreibung

An archive-based study examining how the four Allies - Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union - prepared for and conducted their occupation of Germany after its defeat in 1945. Uses the case of public health to shed light on the complexities of the immediate post-war period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780199660797
• ISBN-10: 0199660794
• Artikelnr.: 37231418

Autorenporträt

Jessica Reinisch grew up in Berlin and lives in London. She teaches and researches at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction: Public Health in Occupied Germany
* PART I: ALLIES AND GERMANS
* 2: A Hard Peace? Allied preparations for the occupation of Germany,
1943-1945
* 3: 'Can we distinguish the sheep from the wolves?': Émigrés, Allies
and Returning Émigrés and the Reconstruction of Germany
* 4: 'Now, back to our Virchow!': German Medical and Political
Traditions after 1945
* PART II: COMPROMISES AND CONFRONTATIONS, 1945-1949
* Introduction to Part II
* 5: Public Health Work in the British Occupation Zone
* 6: Public Health Work in the American Occupation Zone
* 7: Public Health Work in the Soviet Occupation Zone
* 8: The Forgotten Zone: Public Health Work in the French Occupation
Zone
* 9: Public Health in Occupied Germany: Some Conclusions
* Bibliography
* Index