title: [From the medical criticism to the psychotechnical discipline: doctor and automobile at the beginning of the automobile age].
abstract: This contribution focuses on medical and psychological discussions about the consequences of early automobilism in Germany. It can be shown that the medical profession was reasonable discordant concerning attitudes towards the motorcar. Whereas a growing number of doctors used the relative inexpensive and useful small cars, which were aggressively advertised by industry, an influential minority identified the risks and damages of motorized driving very clear sighted. Medical criticism was not fundamental but focused on personal mistakes of drivers or technical and technological inadequateness that could be removed. It therefore differed significantly from the basic opposition of several "enemies of progress".
authors.forename: Uwe
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Fraunholz
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001336:Automobiles / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D049673:History, 20th Century; D010820:Physicians / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology