Autoren:	Prüll, Livia
Titel:	Between stigmatization and acceptance : diabetic patients as civil servants in West Germany, 1950–1970
Online-Publikationsdatum:	4-Jan-2023
Erscheinungsdatum:	2022
Sprache des Dokuments:	Englisch
Zusammenfassung/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-Sachgruppe:	610 Medizin 610 Medical sciences
Veröffentlichende Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Organisationseinheit:	FB 04 Medizin
Veröffentlichungsort:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-8297
Version:	Published version
Publikationstyp:	Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Nutzungsrechte:	CC BY
Informationen zu den Nutzungsrechten:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Zeitschrift:	NTM : Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 30
Seitenzahl oder Artikelnummer:	63 88
Verlag:	Birkhäuser
Verlagsort:	Berlin u.a.
Erscheinungsdatum:	2022
ISSN:	1420-9144
DOI der Originalveröffentlichung:	10.1007/s00048-022-00325-y
Enthalten in den Sammlungen:	DFG-491381577-H