Corinna Treitel
Biographic Data
| ID | 977229 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Corinna Treitel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Corinna |
| FAMILY NAME | Treitel |
| SIGNATURE | TREITEL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3782-552X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
German Health Narratives between Life Reform and Medical Enlightenment, 1890–1930
This article traces the emergence of the health narrative as a new genre of bodily knowledge in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Germany. Health narratives were life stories told by or about an individual, either real or fictional, who made conscious choices about how to conduct their bodily existence. Pioneered by lay health seekers known as life reformers, health narratives were co-opted by physicians hoping to reinvent medical enli…
Nutritional Modernity
Germans were instrumental in shaping “nutritional modernity,” an era stretching from the 1840s to the present, in which nutrition became a vibrant field of scientific study as well as a preeminent tool of social control. Nutrition emerged as a scientific discipline in German laboratories and statistical studies in the nineteenth century. Responding to recurrent bouts of food insecurity associated with key moments of national crisis, moreover, Ger…
Medicine Unbound
Why should intellectual historians care about the history of medicine? As someone who admires and draws frequently on intellectual history but is mostly an outsider to the field, I asked myself this question after accepting the invitation to review two books related to medical history for Modern Intellectual History . To make the question manageable, I decided to investigate how much the history of medicine had cropped up in the pages of MIH sinc…
The Wife as Family Physician
This article investigates the early history of the best-selling German health manual The Wife as Family Physician, written by Dr Anna Fischer-Dückelmann in 1901. The manual built on an older tradition of medical enlightenment, yet broke with its conventions by discussing sexuality openly, emphasising self-help, and mixing the professional knowledge of physicians with the practical knowledge of irregular healers. The result was an ‘embodied health…
Eating Nature in Modern Germany
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian and the Dachau concentration camp had an organic herb garden. Vegetarianism, organic farming, and other such practices have enticed a wide variety of Germans, from socialists, liberals, and radical anti-Semites in the nineteenth century to fascists, communists, and Greens in the twentieth century. Corinna Treitel offers a fascinating new account of how Germans became world leaders in developing more 'natural' ways to…
What the Occult Reveals
Where does occultism fit on the map of modernity? Frank Miller Turner proposed an intriguing answer in his 1974 study Between Science and Religion: The Reaction to Scientific Naturalism in Late Victorian England . The book examined the lives and struggles of six Victorian men: the philosophers Henry Sidgwick and James Ward, the scientists Alfred Russel Wallace and George John Romanes, and the writers Frederic W. H. Myers and Samuel Butler. Of the…
Nature and the Nazi Diet 1
This article investigates the role of natural foods and farming in Nazi Germany. Why did the state encourage Germans to eat and farm more naturally? What did “natural” mean in the context of this genocidal regime? By what means were Germans encouraged to take up these practices and to what degree did they do so? This article explores these questions by tracing the assimilation of natural foods and farming to the regime's racial, political, and ec…
Max Rubner and the Biopolitics of Rational Nutrition
Eager to move on after the divisive Sonderweg debates of the 1980s, historians of modern Germany have been busily elaborating a new central narrative around the notion of biopolitics. Aimed at producing a more powerful and productive society by regulating, optimizing, and even exterminating specific human populations, biopolitics has encompassed everything from housing reform, anti-smoking campaigns, and child vaccination programs to pro- and ant…
Max Rubner and the Biopolitics of Rational Nutrition
Eager to move on after the divisive Sonderweg debates of the 1980s, historians of modern Germany have been busily elaborating a new central narrative around the notion of biopolitics. Aimed at producing a more powerful and productive society by regulating, optimizing, and even exterminating specific human populations, biopolitics has encompassed everything from housing reform, anti-smoking campaigns, and child vaccination programs to pro- and ant…
What the Occult Reveals
Where does occultism fit on the map of modernity? Frank Miller Turner proposed an intriguing answer in his 1974 study Between Science and Religion: The Reaction to Scientific Naturalism in Late Victorian England . The book examined the lives and struggles of six Victorian men: the philosophers Henry Sidgwick and James Ward, the scientists Alfred Russel Wallace and George John Romanes, and the writers Frederic W. H. Myers and Samuel Butler. Of the…
Nutritional Modernity
Germans were instrumental in shaping “nutritional modernity,” an era stretching from the 1840s to the present, in which nutrition became a vibrant field of scientific study as well as a preeminent tool of social control. Nutrition emerged as a scientific discipline in German laboratories and statistical studies in the nineteenth century. Responding to recurrent bouts of food insecurity associated with key moments of national crisis, moreover, Ger…
Nature and the Nazi Diet 1
This article investigates the role of natural foods and farming in Nazi Germany. Why did the state encourage Germans to eat and farm more naturally? What did “natural” mean in the context of this genocidal regime? By what means were Germans encouraged to take up these practices and to what degree did they do so? This article explores these questions by tracing the assimilation of natural foods and farming to the regime's racial, political, and ec…
Max Rubner and the Biopolitics of Rational Nutrition
Eager to move on after the divisive Sonderweg debates of the 1980s, historians of modern Germany have been busily elaborating a new central narrative around the notion of biopolitics. Aimed at producing a more powerful and productive society by regulating, optimizing, and even exterminating specific human populations, biopolitics has encompassed everything from housing reform, anti-smoking campaigns, and child vaccination programs to pro- and ant…
What the Occult Reveals
Where does occultism fit on the map of modernity? Frank Miller Turner proposed an intriguing answer in his 1974 study Between Science and Religion: The Reaction to Scientific Naturalism in Late Victorian England . The book examined the lives and struggles of six Victorian men: the philosophers Henry Sidgwick and James Ward, the scientists Alfred Russel Wallace and George John Romanes, and the writers Frederic W. H. Myers and Samuel Butler. Of the…
Nature and the Nazi Diet 1
This article investigates the role of natural foods and farming in Nazi Germany. Why did the state encourage Germans to eat and farm more naturally? What did “natural” mean in the context of this genocidal regime? By what means were Germans encouraged to take up these practices and to what degree did they do so? This article explores these questions by tracing the assimilation of natural foods and farming to the regime's racial, political, and ec…
Eating Nature in Modern Germany
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian and the Dachau concentration camp had an organic herb garden. Vegetarianism, organic farming, and other such practices have enticed a wide variety of Germans, from socialists, liberals, and radical anti-Semites in the nineteenth century to fascists, communists, and Greens in the twentieth century. Corinna Treitel offers a fascinating new account of how Germans became world leaders in developing more 'natural' ways to…
Medicine Unbound
Why should intellectual historians care about the history of medicine? As someone who admires and draws frequently on intellectual history but is mostly an outsider to the field, I asked myself this question after accepting the invitation to review two books related to medical history for Modern Intellectual History . To make the question manageable, I decided to investigate how much the history of medicine had cropped up in the pages of MIH sinc…
The Wife as Family Physician
This article investigates the early history of the best-selling German health manual The Wife as Family Physician, written by Dr Anna Fischer-Dückelmann in 1901. The manual built on an older tradition of medical enlightenment, yet broke with its conventions by discussing sexuality openly, emphasising self-help, and mixing the professional knowledge of physicians with the practical knowledge of irregular healers. The result was an ‘embodied health…
Nutritional Modernity
Germans were instrumental in shaping “nutritional modernity,” an era stretching from the 1840s to the present, in which nutrition became a vibrant field of scientific study as well as a preeminent tool of social control. Nutrition emerged as a scientific discipline in German laboratories and statistical studies in the nineteenth century. Responding to recurrent bouts of food insecurity associated with key moments of national crisis, moreover, Ger…
German Health Narratives between Life Reform and Medical Enlightenment, 1890–1930
This article traces the emergence of the health narrative as a new genre of bodily knowledge in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Germany. Health narratives were life stories told by or about an individual, either real or fictional, who made conscious choices about how to conduct their bodily existence. Pioneered by lay health seekers known as life reformers, health narratives were co-opted by physicians hoping to reinvent medical enli…
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