Max Hirsch (medic, 1877)

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Max Hirsch (born January 3, 1877 in Berlin ; died May 20, 1948 in Birmingham ) was a German gynecologist who mainly worked in Berlin.

Life

Max Hirsch was born to Jewish parents. He went to school in Berlin and studied medicine .

From 1901, Hirsch first worked as a general practitioner, but later specialized in gynecology , obstetrics and surgery . From 1914 to 1918 Max Hirsch was a First World War medical officer and worked as a senior surgeon in field hospitals on the Eastern Front .

After the war he became a member of the Prussian State Health Council in 1919, chairman of the Medical Society for Sexology and Constitutional Research in 1923 and a member of the Reich Committee for Population Issues in 1928, where, like Richard Goldschmidt, he also dealt with issues of "racial hygiene" as a eugenicist . He was committed to social hygiene and occupational health and safety for women, especially pregnant women, and demanded in 1931: "Social gynecology departments should be set up as research and teaching centers at university women's clinics and midwifery schools ) and the “Handbook of Internal Secretion” (1925–1932).

In the course of the persecution of the Jews , his license to practice medicine in Germany was revoked. In 1939 Max Hirsch emigrated to England . There he worked as an obstetrician until his retirement in 1946.

Merit

From today's perspective, Max Hirsch's greatest merit is his turning away from gynecological “organ specialistism” and the definition of gynecology as the science of women in all relationships and expressions of life. He is considered to be the pioneer of holistic gynecology.

Publications (selection)

  • What is women's studies? Zentralbl Gynäkol 1912; 36: 1648-51
  • Fruit Abortion, Preventive Intercourse, and Decline in Births , 1914
  • About the goals and ways of research on women's issues. Arch Frauenk 1914; 1: 1-13
  • About the causes of the decline in the birth rate and its relationship with the women's movement. Arch Frauenk 1916; 2: 129-32
  • Guide to Occupational Diseases of Women , 1919
  • About women's studies , 1920
  • The medical certificate of marriage , 1921
  • The choice of spouses , 1922
  • Women's work and women's diseases in biology and pathology of women and a handbook of gynecology and obstetrics , edited by Joseph Halban and Ludwig Seitz. Vienna, Berlin: Urban & Schwarzenberg 1924
  • The dangers of female employment for pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium , 1925
  • About the legalization of the medically indicated abortion with special consideration of eugenetic aspects. Arch Frauenk 1926; 12: 1-49
  • Professional work and pool formation , 1927
  • Surgical obstetrics before the question: vaginal or abdominal , 1927
  • The way of operative obstetrics in a demographic light. Arch Frauenk 1927; 13: 201-24
  • Obstetric Imperial Statistics. Arch Frauenk 1929; 15: 320-27

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Weindling : "Mustergau" Thuringia. Racial hygiene between ideology and power politics. In: Norbert Frei (Hrsg.): Medicine and health policy in the Nazi era. Munich 1991 (= writings of the quarterly books for contemporary history. Special issue). Pp. 81–97, here: p. 82.
  2. ↑ David, Matthias; Ebert, Andreas D. Max Hirsch (1877–1948): Pioneer of holistic gynecology. Deutsches Ärzteblatt 2009, 106 (4), p. 131

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SURNAME Hirsch, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1948
Place of death Birmingham