Erzwungener Wandel. Die Transformation der anatomischen Leichenbeschaffung in Bayern nach 1945

Schuetz, Mathias (2019): Erzwungener Wandel. Die Transformation der anatomischen Leichenbeschaffung in Bayern nach 1945. In: Medizinhistorisches Journal, Bd. 54, Nr. 1: S. 70-92

Abstract

The article deals with the motives and debates which led the Bavarian state to pull out of the system of anatomical body procurement, in 1960/61, and marked the transition to a system that would rely solely on body donations. This decision had been preceded by the unsuccessful attempt to revive the traditional system, which had virtually become inexistent after the Second World War, and intended to oblige administrations and charities to deliver deceased bodies. On the basis of the arguments between the Bavarian anatomists and State's Ministries about anatomical body procurement it can be shown how the selective dealing with the profession's National Socialist past contributed to the reestablishment of a system, which increasingly contradicted emerging conceptions of personal rights and individual self-determination. Therefore, the transition to body donations in the early 1960s was implemented against the will of the anatomists.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Medizin
• Themengebiete: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
• ISSN: 0025-8431
• Sprache: Deutsch