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.
Highlights
Wiewohl die Patientengeschichte seit Mitte der 1980er Jahre die Medizingeschichte stark bereichert hat, finden sich noch starke Forschungsdesiderate, so beispielsweise im Rahmen der Forschung zur Medizingeschichte der frühen Bundesrepublik
The topic of the paper is part of a project sponsored by the German Research Association (DFG) entitled “Patients, the Public and Medicine in West Germany – ” (PR / - ), which was started at Heidelberg University in and which was brought to an end at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz in
This paper deals with transfer processes and decision-making between medical healers and patient groups whose representatives did not solely see themselves as ardent defenders of their own medical theories and systems operating in a restricted world of diagnostic and therapeutic methods
Summary
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. Der Beitrag behandelt die Bemühungen von Diabeteskranken auf der einen Seite sowie Laienhelfern und Mediziner_innen, d. H. Diabetologen, auf der anderen Seite, um einen Zugang zur Verbeamtung von Patient_innen. Damit trug der Einsatz für die Verbeamtung von Diabeteskranken dazu bei, das Image der Krankheit zu verändern und eine Integration in die westdeutsche Gesellschaft zu fördern. The topic of the paper is part of a project sponsored by the German Research Association (DFG) entitled “Patients, the Public and Medicine in West Germany – ” (PR / - ), which was started at Heidelberg University in and which was brought to an end at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz in
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