Typhus: The Influence of Society and State on a Human Disease
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The infectious disease typhus is unusual in its interaction with humans. In Nazi Germany typhus was characterised as the Jewish plague and was pivotal in the medicalisation of anti-Semitism. This came to reflect a society, and its values, through the influence of state ideology and legislature. Medical thinking about a human illness was altered, as was traditional Hippocratic based medical practice, aided by manipulation of the law, to create one of mankind’s bleakest periods.
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