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During the corona crisis, Robert Koch‘s name has been on everyone‘s lips: Robert Koch is
regarded as one of the shining lights in German medical history. However, the expedition that
he undertakes in 1906 to the “protected area” of German East Africa even the institute named
after him describes as the darkest chapter in Koch‘s history. Lichtwarck-Aschoff‘s oppressive
book tells how the Nobel laureate conducted medical tests on people suffering from the sleeping
sickness transmitted by the tsetse fly, and recommended the internment of sick people in camps.
The aim was to preserve the labour power of the healthy colonised – even if that were at the
cost of the infected suffering damage to their body and soul or even dying.
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Author Biography
Michael Lichtwarck-Aschoff worked for many years as an intensive care physician in Augsburg, researched in Munich, Basel, Freiburg and Uppsala, and lectured as a supernumerary professor of anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine. At the end of his clinical work he ontemplates in writing what medicine is.
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- Publisher S. Hirzel Verlag
- Publication Date March 2021
- Orginal LanguageGerman
- ISBN/Identifier 9783777629179
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 24 EUR
- Pages284
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleRobert Kochs Affe. Der grandiose Irrtum des berühmten Seuchenarztes
- Copyright Year2021
- SeriesHirzel Narrative Non-fiction
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