title: Physiatrie and German maternal feminism: Dr. Anna Fischer-Dückelmann critiques academic medicine.
abstract: Alternative medicine and reform strategies made Anna Fischer-Dückelmann a most controversial, notorious, and widely read women doctor before World War I. She published a dozen titles in 13 languages asserting that national well-being depended on maternal prowess. To her critics, Fischer-Dückelmann's commitment to medical self-help and practices of Physiatrie amounted to medical quackery. Her career has been largely unexamined, yet her feminist critiques and social concerns are not far removed from modern social medicine. For this pioneering doctor, treating physical and emotional ills and promoting the health of families were first steps toward healing the divisions of a world at war.
authors.forename: Paulette
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Meyer
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D019513:Feminism / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010810:Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine / Q000266:history*; D016387:Women's Health / Q000266:history*