History of Public Health

Knowledge of the traditions of the public health system (taking into account the medical-scientific development, health care and its financing through social insurance and the services of the public health service)
Develop the potential for critical reflection and strengthen the ability to judge and make decisions based on the historical analysis of current health policy problems and solutions

Medical policy
hygiene
Social hygiene
Racial hygiene
Social medicine
Rationing and selection under National Socialism
Continuity or change in the post-war German healthcare system: the two German models

Eckart, Wolfgang Uwe: Geschichte der Medizin. 3rd ed., Berlin, 1998.
Göckenjan, Gerd: Kurieren und Staat machen. Gesundheit und Medizin in der bürgerlichen Welt. Frankfurt/M., 1985.
Koven, Seth; Michel, Sonya (eds.): Mothers of a New World. Maternalist Politics and the Origins of the Welfare States. New York/London 1993.
Labisch, Alfons: Homo Hygienicus. Gesundheit und Medizin in der Neuzeit. Frankfurt/M. 1992.
Deppe, Hans-Ulrich; Regus, Michael (eds.): Seminar: Medizin, Gesellschaft, Geschichte. Beiträge zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Medizinsoziologie. Frankfurt/M., 1975.
Porter, Dorothy (ed.): The History of Public Health and the Modern State. Amsterdam, Atlanta 1994.
Stöckel, Sigrid; Walter, Ulla, (eds.): Prävention im 20. Jahrhundert. Historische Grundlagen und zukünftige Entwicklung. Weinheim 2002.