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Author Reinisch, Jessica, author.

Title The perils of peace : the public health crisis in occupied Germany / Jessica Reinisch
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 324 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction -- Part I: Allies and Germans. A hard peace? Allied preparations for the occupation of Germany, 1943-1945 ; 'Can we distinguish the sheep from the wolves?' : émigrés, Allies, and the reconstruction of Germany ; 'Now, back to our Virchow' : German medical and political traditions in post-war Berlin -- Part II: Compromises and confrontations, 1945-1949. Introduction ; Public health work in the British Occupation Zone ; Public health work in the American Occupation Zone ; Public health work in the Soviet Occupation Zone ; The forgotten Zone : public health work in the French Occupation Zone -- Some Conclusions
Summary This is an archive-based study examining how the four Allies - Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union - prepared for and conducted their occupation of Germany after its defeat in 1945. It uses the case of public health to shed light on the complexities of the immediate post-war period
Analysis World War II
public health
post-war Germany
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource, title from PDF title page (OAPEN, viewed July 18, 2016)
In OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN
Subject Public health -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Public health administration -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Public health -- Germany
Public health administration -- Germany
Delivery of Health Care -- history
Public Health -- history
Public Health Administration -- history
History, 20th Century
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
European history.
History of medicine.
History.
History: earliest times to present day.
Humanities.
Medicine.
Medicine: general issues.
Military history.
Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000.
Regional and national history.
Second World War.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues.
Public health
Public health administration
Social conditions
SUBJECT Germany -- History -- 1945-1955. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054599
Germany -- Social conditions -- 1945-1955. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007005962
Germany
Subject Germany
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012277742
ISBN 9780191636554
019163655X
0191748293
9780191748295
9781299664876
1299664873
Other Titles Public health crisis in occupied Germany