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

该项目审查了1974年民主德国和联邦德国德国之间谈判达成的《卫生条约》在冷战期间德国内部关系中的作用，同时考虑到医学、政治和日常生活的历史。在签署之前，两个德国在保健领域既没有正式的共同规则，也没有适当的合作。该项目的目的是审查这一主张，其依据是，两国在战后时期实际上处理了从人道主义角度出发的谈判对象，即“跨界客运中的相互医疗援助”（第3条）和“在德国另一国实施特殊待遇”（第4条）。此外，报告还详细介绍了谈判双方的动机和目标，并分析了谈判进程以及各自的国家话语。最后，报告审查了条约第3条和第4条规定的规则的日常做法，并询问了条约与各自国家发展之间的相互作用，德国-德国关系和一般的东西方冲突。十字架的不同演员的档案-医疗保健领域的边境合作以及与政治层面的行为者和植入条约的当代证人的访谈日常实践是这个项目的基础。通过这项任务，该项目填补了近期医学史研究的空白，并进一步深入了解了德国与德国的相互依存关系、德国分治的日常经历以及冷战期间“铁幕”的渗透性。

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.