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DicoPolHiS

Political Dictionary of the History of Health

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    • Am Spiegelgrund

      Considered one of the theatres of the Third Reich’s euthanasia program Am Spiegelgrund is a space where Nazi impact on paedopsychiatry is on display.

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    • Skoptsy

      There is today a growing clamour for the democratisation of vasectomy but this voluntary sterilisation practice was already in full swing in !8th century Russia.

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    • Social paediatrics



      Social paediatrics aim to think of child health holistically, within its environment and to act socially. Social paediatrics aim to think of child health holistically, within its environment and to act...

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    • Speculum

      Gynaecological abuse has its history. A lookback on the growth in speculum use.

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    • Subtle energies

      "Subtle energies" is a key term in today’s alternative medicine. It plays a central role in the area of energy healing, which includes therapies such as acupuncture, Reiki, Pranic Healing, and Therapeutic Touch.

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    • Sugar

      The relationship to sugar in our society is sustainably anchored on a difference between genders.

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    • Syringe

      The appearance of new syringe models in the 1850s questions the conditions of the development of medical techniques.

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    • The Stomach

      Knowledge of the interconnection of the gut and psyche has a longer history than scientists often admit.

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    • The suitcases of Willard State Hospital (New-York)

      Suitcases as symbols of the struggle for dignity and civil rights of people with mental illnesses

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