Bruchhausen, Walter and Borowy, Iris (2017). Development Aid and Solidarity Work: East and West German Health Cooperation with Low-Income Countries, 1945 to 1970. Gesnerus, 74 (2). S. 173 - 188. BASEL: SCHWABE AG BASEL. ISSN 0016-9161

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Abstract

Between 1949 and 1989, both the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) in the West and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the East, engaged in health-related relations with low-income countries in the global South. The strong position of the churches in West Germany and the dominant position of the state in the East provided the preconditions for diverging international health activities, as did differences in ideology and economic status. Activities entailed similarities (an initial focus on clinical therapy and material donations) and differences (in scale, composition of actors and conceptualization). Programs evolved gradually, reacting to circumstances rather than a master plan. By the late 1960s, international health assistance was mainly organized as a component of development aid in the FRG, while regarded as solidarity in the GDR, in both cases designed to spur changes in recipient countries according to the respective Northern models as components of a perceived direct, global East-West confrontation.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Bruchhausen, WalterUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Borowy, IrisUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-244202
Journal or Publication Title: Gesnerus
Volume: 74
Number: 2
Page Range: S. 173 - 188
Date: 2017
Publisher: SCHWABE AG BASEL
Place of Publication: BASEL
ISSN: 0016-9161
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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History & Philosophy Of ScienceMultiple languages
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/24420

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