Medical interdependence during the Cold War: the history, negotiation and everyday life of the German-German Health Treaty

该项目考察了德意志民主共和国和德意志联邦共和国在冷战期间谈判达成的1974年《卫生条约》在德国内部关系中的作用，其中考虑到了医学史、政治和日常生活的各个方面。在签署之前，两个德国州在医疗保健领域既没有正式的共同规则，也没有适当的合作。该项目旨在根据两国在实践中处理的涉及人道主义观点的谈判对象，即“跨界旅客运输中的医疗互助”(第3条)和“在另一个德国州执行特殊治疗”(第4条)，来审查这一断言。此外，还详细介绍了谈判双方的动机和目标，并分析了谈判过程以及各自的国家话语。最后，它审查了条约第3条和第4条规定的规则的日常实践，并询问了条约与各自的国家发展、德德关系和总体东西方冲突之间的互动。卫生保健领域跨境合作的不同行为者的文件以及对政治层面的行为者和将条约植入日常实践的当代目击者的采访构成了该项目的基础。通过这项任务，该项目填补了近代医学史研究中的一个空白，并提供了对德德相互依存、德国分治的日常经历以及冷战期间“铁幕”的渗透性的进一步洞察。

The project examines the role of the 1974 Health Treaty negotiated between the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany in intra-German relations during the Cold War, taking into account aspects of the history of medicine, politics and everyday life. Until its signature, there had been officially neither common rules nor appropriate cooperation between the two German states in the field of health care. The project aims to examine this assertion on the basis the two states dealt in practice with the objects of negotiation which address a humanitarian point of view, namely the "mutual medical aid in cross-border passenger traffic" (Article 3) and the "execution of special treatments in the other German state" (Article 4), in the post-war period. Furthermore, it presents in detail the motives and objectives of the two negotiating parties and analyses the negotiation process as well as the respective national discourse. Finally, it examines the everyday practice of the rules laid down in Article 3 and 4 of the treaty and asks about the interactions between the treaty and the respective national development, German-German relations and the general East-West conflict.The files of the different actors of the cross-border cooperation in the field of health care as well as interviews with actors on the political level and contemporary witnesses who implanted the treaty into everyday practice form the basis of this project. With its task, the project closes a gap in the research of recent medical history and provides further insights into German-German interdependence, the everyday experience of German partition and the permeability of the "Iron Curtain" during the Cold War.