title: [Establishment of university departments of urology in North Rhine-Westphalia: the Aachen model].
abstract: The foundation of university departments of urology in postwar East and West Germany faced some opposition by some university professors of surgery who wanted to preserve the unity of their discipline. In North Rhine-Westphalia, heads of municipal hospitals or senior members of university hospitals' staff often received the first chaired professorships of urology.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin, Universität Ulm, Ulm, Deutschland, friedrich.moll@uni-koeln.de.
authors.forename: F H
authors.initials: FH
authors.lastname: Moll
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Halling
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rathert
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krischel
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fangerau
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D005859:Germany, East; D005860:Germany, West; D049673:History, 20th Century; D017146:Models, Organizational; D014572:Urology / Q000266:history*; D014573:Urology Department, Hospital / Q000266:history*