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    Traumatisierung durch politisierte Medizin

    Geschlossene Venerologische Stationen in der DDR

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    Author(s)
    Steger, Florian
    Schochow, Maximilian
    Language
    German
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    Abstract
    In the GDR, girls and women from the age of twelve were forced into closed venereological wards. The medical treatments and the stay in the wards led to severe traumatization of the forced inmates. Just the suspicion of an STD or a denunciation was enough to be brought to such a station by the police or the home management. Political medicine in the wards interfered with the physical integrity of the girls and women without the information and consent of those who had been sent to the hospital. Even though 70 percent of them were shown not to have an STD, all girls and women had to undergo a gynecological examination every day. In some stations, the forced instruction had to do the work. In other stations, the girls and women were asylum-seekers and isolated from the outside world. In a hierarchically organized terror system, the interned were physically and psychologically humiliated and traumatized. These traumatizations were passed on transgenerationally. Using the example of Berlin, Berlin-Buch, Dresden, Halle (Saale) and Leipzig, the emergence of the stations in the Soviet occupation zone, everyday life in the closed venerological stations and the traumatic consequences of the compulsory admissions are described. In addition to extensive archive research, the authors conducted interviews with former forced inmates as well as with doctors, nurses and employees of the closed venereological stations for this reconstruction.
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39699
    Keywords
    traumatisation; GDR; closed ward; politicization of medicine; venerology
    DOI
    10.32745/9783954664559
    Publisher
    MWV Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft
    Publisher website
    https://www.mwv-berlin.de/
    Publication date and place
    Berlin, 2015
    Classification
    History of medicine
    Pages
    255
    Rights
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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