Authors:	Prüll, Livia
Title:	Between stigmatization and acceptance : diabetic patients as civil servants in West Germany, 1950–1970
Online publication date:	4-Jan-2023
Year of first publication:	2022
Language:	english
Abstract:	Patient history has enriched medical history since about the 1980s. But there are still research gaps in certain periods and themes, especially in topics related to the medical history of West Germany. This paper deals with the efforts of patients, lay persons, and medical advisors (diabetologists) to enable diabetics to secure employment as civil servants (Verbeamtung). Attention will be payed to the fact that this success relied on the activities of mediators, who translated and conveyed the patients’ interests to society at large. This victory was concordant with similar initiatives in other fields of the diabetic life, including sexuality and lifestyle management. Therefore, efforts to achieve civil servant employment for diabetic patients were constitutive of a broader initiative that changed the image of the disease and promoted the integration of diabetic patients into West German society.
DDC:	610 Medizin 610 Medical sciences
Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department:	FB 04 Medizin
Place:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-8297
Version:	Published version
Publication type:	Zeitschriftenaufsatz
License:	CC BY
Information on rights of use:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Journal:	NTM : Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 30
Pages or article number:	63 88
Publisher:	Birkhäuser
Publisher place:	Berlin u.a.
Issue date:	2022
ISSN:	1420-9144
Publisher DOI:	10.1007/s00048-022-00325-y
Appears in collections:	DFG-491381577-H