Gender, Sex, and Medicine in Post-War Europe

Ulf Schmidt is Senior Professor of Modern History at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He is the author of Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments (2015), Karl Brandt - The Nazi Doctor (Bloomsbury, 2007) and Justice at Nuremberg (2004).Kate Docking is Research Fellow at the Centre for Health, Ethics, and Society, University of Hamburg, Germany.David Peace is Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

• Editors’ IntroductionPart 1 - Governing Sex and Reproductive Policies1. ‘The Enrichment of Life, not its Restriction’: The WMA and the medical ethics of reproductive health Ulf Schmidt (University of Hamburg, Germany)2. Women’s Privacy and Decision Making on Abortion in Post-War Hungary and the Netherlands Judit Sándor (Central European University, Hungary) and Maria Eva Foldes (Erasmus University, Netherlands)3. ‘Laws out of our bodies’: Abortion as a feminist demand in modern Greece, 1976-1986 Martha Vasili (University of the Aegean, Greece)4. ‘Woe to you that you are a grandchild’: Radiation, reproduction, and the case against WMDs Naomi Rio and Will Studdert (both University of Hamburg, Germany)Part 2 - Managing Behaviour and Preventing Infectious Disease 5. Gender Norms and Polio Prevention Propaganda in the GDR Peter Banks (University of Hamburg, Germany)6. ‘Is Chastity Outmoded?’ Doctors’ attitudes towards pre-marital sex in post-war Britain Kate Docking (University of Hamburg, Germany)7. The Patronato System: Venereal disease prevention in early Francoist Spain Florian Grafl (Heidelberg University of Education, Germany)8. Body and Sex Positivity in British and Dutch HIV/AIDS Health Messaging James Farley (University of Hamburg, Germany)Part 3 - Crossing Borders and Shared Ideals 9. International Surveys and the Prevention of Endemic Syphilis in the Eastern Mediterranean Kate Docking and David Peace (both University of Hamburg, Germany)10. The Flow of Ideas on Transgender Medicine across the Iron Curtain Yana Kirey-Sitnikova (University of Uppsala, Sweden)11. Female Doctors and Medical Migration during the Socialist Period in Bulgaria Mila Maeva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)12. Sex Selection and Civilization: Genetics and eugenics in post-war Britain and Italy David Peace (University of Hamburg, Germany)Epilogue: Beyond Binaries Kate Docking, David Peace and Ulf Schmidt (all University of Hamburg, Germany)BibliographyIndex