[Well-cared-for illness?--from the early times of the social insurance system].
This paper examines the reaction of physicians to the inauguration of a system of social insurance at the beginning of the twentieth century in Germany. The writings of Erwin Liek--a spokesman of German physicians in this respect--show how social insurance, which was inextricably connected with a social and an economic crisis, had a negative influence on medicine: individual therapeutical relationship has been replaced by a bureaucratic dialogue which favours upholding a state of disease instead of promoting health. This study suggests that Liek's criticism bears some analogy with today's german criticism of the social insurance system.
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Medizinhistorisches Institut, Universität Zürich.
D001294:Attitude to Health; D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000266:history*; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000266:history*
Gepflegte Krankheit?--Aus den früheren Zeiten des Versicherungswesens.