After Pettenkofer. Munich’s Institute of Hygiene and the long Shadow of National Socialism, 1894–1974
The year 2019 marked the 140th anniversary of the inauguration of the first Institute of Hygiene, which was established for Max von Pettenkofer at the university of Munich. After Pettenkofer, his successors tried to advance the science of hygiene each in their own specific way, highlighting different aspects and trying to relate them to Pettenkofer’s legacy: Max von Gruber promoted an understanding of hygiene which was more and more tied to constitutional and racial factors, Karl Kisskalt tried to revise a perceived bacteriological paradigm, and Hermann Eyer focused on preventive public health measures. All of those influences had a more or less explicit and distinct connection to the general development of German medicine in the first half of the 20th century and its culmination in National Socialist crimes. The history of Munich’s Institute of Hygiene after Pettenkofer illustrates the differing scientific and ideological paths this development pursued by the examples of its three long-term protagonists and their relationship to National Socialism.
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Dear Neshama, i read your blog. I thank you for posting posts that help many. Your latest sharing of the video of Vera Sharav, with Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, was so helpful.
Hashem bless you.
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Neshama I wish that you would write more about the ongoing worst global antisemitism since the end of ww2. Yesterday in France it became official that you can murder a Jew with impunity if you get high first, but not, as a French commenter pointed out, a dog (very similar recent case with a dog, perpetrator sentenced to prison.).
And in other news, https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/it-took-36-hours-london-modern-orthodox-shul-renovation-crowdfunding-exceeds-goal-by-242k/2021/04/21/
What a disgrace. Yes, the Jewish diaspora is awash with money, but lacking in ratzon. Rav Teichtel HYD, at the height of the Shoah, bitterly lamented the fact that Jews had invested their energies in building up diaspora communities instead of Eretz Yisrael, and in the end had neither.
The corona and its implications is a big deal, but it is still a side show to the primary issue of the fate of the diaspora.
Elisheva, I don’t know what to say to you. We have a much much much more dangerous thing going on in this world. Please update your info with my latest posts.
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