title: Karl Stern (1906-1975).
abstract: The forced migration process of German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists under the Nazis during the 1930s and 40s is often preoccupied solely with "successful" concepts and therapeutic approaches. The case of German-Canadian neurologist Karl Stern (1906-1975) is very instructive, however, since the process of forced migration, for him, proved to be a transitionary process from his former cutting edge work in neuropathology and holist neurology in Germany to clinical psychiatry and the development of the new discipline of geriatric medicine in Canada.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Community Health Sciences and History, Hotchkiss Brain Institute and Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary, 3280 Hospital Drive N.W., Calgary, AB, T2N 4Z6, Canada, fwstahni@ucalgary.ca.
authors.forename: Frank W
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Stahnisch
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pow
mesh_terms: D005853:Geriatrics / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009462:Neurology / Q000266:history*; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history*