Citation

Schlich T. Bull. Hist. Med. 2006; 80(1): 73-94.

Affiliation

Dept. of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, 3647 Peel Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1X1. thomas.schlich@mcgill.ca

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Johns Hopkins University Press)

DOI

10.1353/bhm.2006.0039

PMID

16549882

Abstract

This paper analyzes how in Germany in the first half of the twentieth century the development of surgery and modern automobile traffic were intertwined. It describes the mutual influence of traffic policy and trauma surgery under the conditions of National Socialist politics of modernization. This coevolutionary development provides an example of how the rise of much of modern surgery can be better understood by taking into account other, nonmedical developments in society.

Language: en