Sick Heil: Self and Illness in Nazi Germany

@article{Cocks2007SickHS,
  title={Sick Heil: Self and Illness in Nazi Germany},
  author={Geoffrey Cocks},
  journal={Osiris},
  year={2007},
  volume={22},
  pages={93 - 115},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:40551973}
}
Medicalization and commodification of health was continuous with modern trends and became a wartime site of attempted well‐being of the self at the expense of the Nazi ethnic community.
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