Medicine and modernity : public health and medical care in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany / edited by Manfred Berg and Geoffrey Cocks.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

To benefit the poor and advance medical science : hospitals and hospital care in Germany, 1820-1870 / Johanna Bleker -- From traditional individualism to collective professionalism : state, patient, compulsory health insurance and the panel doctor question in Germany, 1883-1931 / Alfons Labisch -- In search of German social Darwinism / Richard J. Evans -- Modern German doctors / Charles E. McClelland -- The mentally ill patient caught between the state's demands and the professional interests of psychiatrists / Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach -- Rationalizing the therapeutic arsenal / Paul Lerner -- Sterilization and 'medical' massacres in National Socialist Germany / Gisela Bock -- The Nuremberg doctors' trial and the German Sonderweg as harbinger / Geoffrey Cocks -- The debate that will not end : the politics of abortion / Atina Grossman -- The sewering scandal of 1993 and the German medical establishment / Michael H. Kater.