Larry Frohman
Biographic Data
| ID | 366048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larry Frohman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larry |
| FAMILY NAME | Frohman |
| SIGNATURE | FROHMAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stony Brook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9275-7833 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Politics of Personal Information: Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany
In the 1970s and 1980s West Germany was a pioneer in both the use of the new information technologies for population surveillance and the adoption of privacy protection legislation. During this era of cultural change and political polarization, the expansion, bureaucratization, and computerization of population surveillance disrupted the norms that had governed the exchange and use of personal information in earlier decades and gave rise to a set…
The Politics of Personal Information: Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany
Politics of Personal Information: Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany
Network Euphoria, Super-Information Systems and the West German Plan for a National Database System
Much attention has been devoted to planning as the key concept in political discourse of the Federal Republic from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. Much less attention has been paid to the closely related notion of information. At the turn of the 1970s, one of the most important initiatives of the West German government in the informational domain was a proposed national database network. The conception of politics that underlay this project bundl…
Auf der Suche nach “Verfassungsfeinden”: Der Radikalenbeschluss in Hamburg, 1971–1987
The Radicals Decree—or what Jaeger calls (p. 11) the Radicals ‘Resolution’ (Beschluss) in order to emphasize that it represented a statement of political intention, rather than a formal administrative decree (Erlass)—was one of the most traumatic events in the history of the Federal Republic. However, the topic has been glossed more often than it has been made the object of study in its own right, and Jaeger’s account of the origins, implementati…
Population Registration in Germany, 1842–1945: Information, Administrative Power, and State-Making in the Age of Paper
Population registration has figured only peripherally in histories of state formation in modern Europe. Although the registries never fully shed their original security function, the emergence of the interventionist state transformed the personal data or information collected by the registries into a central element of state administrative power. However, the ways in which this information could be used by both the civilian administration and the…
Medical Surveillance and Medical Confidentiality in an Age of Transition: The Debate over Cancer Registration in West Germany
In the 1970s, cancer registries emerged as an essential tool in West Germany’s efforts to control cancer. However, they assumed this new importance at the very moment when the West German public was becoming increasingly concerned about personal privacy and the potential harms resulting from the collection and use of personal information, and the ensuing debate over information access and privacy became one of the central axes for a broader rethi…
In the Bowels of the Information Machine: Population Registration and the Impact of Computers on Personal Privacy and Public Administration
The German population registration system was the core of the population identification, information, and control system constructed across the 20th century. However, the functioning of the system also raised questions about how personal information was to be gathered, integrated with other bodies of personal information, and then used for population surveillance. This article examines the hopes associated with the late-1960s proposal to automate…
Andreas-Holger Maehle, Contesting Medical Confidentiality. Origins of the Debate in the United States, Britain, and Germany
The principle of medical confidentiality has a long pre-history. However, in this slim volume Maehle argues that, in the United States, Britain and Germany, the specifically modern meaning of the principle, which obtained through much of the twentieth century, emerged between the 1890s and the 1920s as physicians, lawyers, the state and the public clashed over the relative importance of professional status, individual health, public health, publi…
Redefining Medical Confidentiality in the Digital Era: Healthcare Reform and the West German Debate over the Use of Personal Medical Information in the 1980s
In a book published in 2012 to great ballyhoo, the American cardiologist Eric Topol painted a shimmering, seductive picture of how the “super-convergence” of “the rapidly maturing digital, nonmedical world of mobile devices, cloud computing, and social networking with the emerging digital medical world of genomics, biosensors, and advancing imaging” was leading to the “creative destruction of medicine.” The targets of his polemic—one where inform…
Population Registration, Social Planning, and the Discourse on Privacy Protection in West Germany
Statistics and the Public Sphere. Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800–2000
Poor Relief and Welfare in Germany from the Reformation to World War I
This account of poor relief, charity, and social welfare in Germany from the Reformation through World War I integrates historical narrative and theoretical analysis of such issues as social discipline, governmentality, gender, religion, and state-formation. It analyses the changing cultural frameworks through which the poor came to be considered as needy; the institutions, strategies, and practices devised to assist, integrate, and discipline th…
The Break-Up of the Poor Laws- German Style: Progressivism and the Origins of the Welfare State, 1900-1918
While the 1834 New Poor Law and the controversies over its reform represent one of the central threads in every narrative of the history of modern Britain, the same can hardly be said of the German poor laws, whose history is far less known. This is due in large part to a historiographical tradition that sees the Bismarckian social insurance programs as the fons et origo of the German welfare state and thus marginalizes all forms of social assist…
Prevention, Welfare, and Citizenship: The War on Tuberculosis and Infant Mortality in Germany, 1900-1930
There are many ways to approach the history of the welfare state, and one's understanding of the subject depends to a large degree on the path one takes and the questions that are asked along the way. This paper will take as its point of entry the social programs created to prosecute the war on tuberculosis and infant mortality in Germany from the turn of the last century through the 1920s, specifically the work of the tuberculosis welfare and in…
The Rule of Freedom: Liberalism and the Modern City , by Patrick Joyce
Neo-Stoicism and the Transition to Modernity in Wilhelm Dilthey's Philosophy of History
L'A. reprend l'idee de Dilthey que la redecouverte du stoicisme a la fin du 16 e et au debut du 17 e siecle a contribue pour une grande part a l'avenement de la modernite. Il montre la pertinence de cette idee trop souvent negligee et examine son importance a l'interieur meme de la philosophie de l'histoire de Dilthey
Prevention, Welfare, and Citizenship: The War on Tuberculosis and Infant Mortality in Germany, 1900-1930
There are many ways to approach the history of the welfare state, and one's understanding of the subject depends to a large degree on the path one takes and the questions that are asked along the way. This paper will take as its point of entry the social programs created to prosecute the war on tuberculosis and infant mortality in Germany from the turn of the last century through the 1920s, specifically the work of the tuberculosis welfare and in…
Population Registration, Social Planning, and the Discourse on Privacy Protection in West Germany
Population Registration in Germany, 1842–1945: Information, Administrative Power, and State-Making in the Age of Paper
Population registration has figured only peripherally in histories of state formation in modern Europe. Although the registries never fully shed their original security function, the emergence of the interventionist state transformed the personal data or information collected by the registries into a central element of state administrative power. However, the ways in which this information could be used by both the civilian administration and the…
In the Bowels of the Information Machine: Population Registration and the Impact of Computers on Personal Privacy and Public Administration
The German population registration system was the core of the population identification, information, and control system constructed across the 20th century. However, the functioning of the system also raised questions about how personal information was to be gathered, integrated with other bodies of personal information, and then used for population surveillance. This article examines the hopes associated with the late-1960s proposal to automate…
Neo-Stoicism and the Transition to Modernity in Wilhelm Dilthey's Philosophy of History
L'A. reprend l'idee de Dilthey que la redecouverte du stoicisme a la fin du 16 e et au debut du 17 e siecle a contribue pour une grande part a l'avenement de la modernite. Il montre la pertinence de cette idee trop souvent negligee et examine son importance a l'interieur meme de la philosophie de l'histoire de Dilthey
The Rule of Freedom: Liberalism and the Modern City , by Patrick Joyce
Prevention, Welfare, and Citizenship: The War on Tuberculosis and Infant Mortality in Germany, 1900-1930
There are many ways to approach the history of the welfare state, and one's understanding of the subject depends to a large degree on the path one takes and the questions that are asked along the way. This paper will take as its point of entry the social programs created to prosecute the war on tuberculosis and infant mortality in Germany from the turn of the last century through the 1920s, specifically the work of the tuberculosis welfare and in…
Poor Relief and Welfare in Germany from the Reformation to World War I
This account of poor relief, charity, and social welfare in Germany from the Reformation through World War I integrates historical narrative and theoretical analysis of such issues as social discipline, governmentality, gender, religion, and state-formation. It analyses the changing cultural frameworks through which the poor came to be considered as needy; the institutions, strategies, and practices devised to assist, integrate, and discipline th…
The Break-Up of the Poor Laws- German Style: Progressivism and the Origins of the Welfare State, 1900-1918
While the 1834 New Poor Law and the controversies over its reform represent one of the central threads in every narrative of the history of modern Britain, the same can hardly be said of the German poor laws, whose history is far less known. This is due in large part to a historiographical tradition that sees the Bismarckian social insurance programs as the fons et origo of the German welfare state and thus marginalizes all forms of social assist…
Statistics and the Public Sphere. Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800–2000
Population Registration, Social Planning, and the Discourse on Privacy Protection in West Germany
Andreas-Holger Maehle, Contesting Medical Confidentiality. Origins of the Debate in the United States, Britain, and Germany
The principle of medical confidentiality has a long pre-history. However, in this slim volume Maehle argues that, in the United States, Britain and Germany, the specifically modern meaning of the principle, which obtained through much of the twentieth century, emerged between the 1890s and the 1920s as physicians, lawyers, the state and the public clashed over the relative importance of professional status, individual health, public health, publi…
Redefining Medical Confidentiality in the Digital Era: Healthcare Reform and the West German Debate over the Use of Personal Medical Information in the 1980s
In a book published in 2012 to great ballyhoo, the American cardiologist Eric Topol painted a shimmering, seductive picture of how the “super-convergence” of “the rapidly maturing digital, nonmedical world of mobile devices, cloud computing, and social networking with the emerging digital medical world of genomics, biosensors, and advancing imaging” was leading to the “creative destruction of medicine.” The targets of his polemic—one where inform…
In the Bowels of the Information Machine: Population Registration and the Impact of Computers on Personal Privacy and Public Administration
The German population registration system was the core of the population identification, information, and control system constructed across the 20th century. However, the functioning of the system also raised questions about how personal information was to be gathered, integrated with other bodies of personal information, and then used for population surveillance. This article examines the hopes associated with the late-1960s proposal to automate…
Medical Surveillance and Medical Confidentiality in an Age of Transition: The Debate over Cancer Registration in West Germany
In the 1970s, cancer registries emerged as an essential tool in West Germany’s efforts to control cancer. However, they assumed this new importance at the very moment when the West German public was becoming increasingly concerned about personal privacy and the potential harms resulting from the collection and use of personal information, and the ensuing debate over information access and privacy became one of the central axes for a broader rethi…
The Politics of Personal Information: Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany
In the 1970s and 1980s West Germany was a pioneer in both the use of the new information technologies for population surveillance and the adoption of privacy protection legislation. During this era of cultural change and political polarization, the expansion, bureaucratization, and computerization of population surveillance disrupted the norms that had governed the exchange and use of personal information in earlier decades and gave rise to a set…
The Politics of Personal Information: Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany
Politics of Personal Information: Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany
Network Euphoria, Super-Information Systems and the West German Plan for a National Database System
Much attention has been devoted to planning as the key concept in political discourse of the Federal Republic from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. Much less attention has been paid to the closely related notion of information. At the turn of the 1970s, one of the most important initiatives of the West German government in the informational domain was a proposed national database network. The conception of politics that underlay this project bundl…
Auf der Suche nach “Verfassungsfeinden”: Der Radikalenbeschluss in Hamburg, 1971–1987
The Radicals Decree—or what Jaeger calls (p. 11) the Radicals ‘Resolution’ (Beschluss) in order to emphasize that it represented a statement of political intention, rather than a formal administrative decree (Erlass)—was one of the most traumatic events in the history of the Federal Republic. However, the topic has been glossed more often than it has been made the object of study in its own right, and Jaeger’s account of the origins, implementati…
Population Registration in Germany, 1842–1945: Information, Administrative Power, and State-Making in the Age of Paper
Population registration has figured only peripherally in histories of state formation in modern Europe. Although the registries never fully shed their original security function, the emergence of the interventionist state transformed the personal data or information collected by the registries into a central element of state administrative power. However, the ways in which this information could be used by both the civilian administration and the…
Political science (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · European history and politics (7 works) · German (6 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Population (5 works)