ARTICLE ANALYSIS

Article Analysis

Article Analysis

Summary

In a parallel with Alan “racial hygiene” (the term Rassenhygiene was coined by Alfred Ploetz), today's new public health ideology can be characterized as moral hygiene— moralischehygiene.

Analysis

In this article, moral hygiene seeks to bring all human activity within the domain of medicine and public health. Human beings are again being homogenized by the state, in a manner reminiscent of National Socialist Gleichschaltung.

Ideology

The ideology of moral hygiene not only views health as the supreme value, but also views moral behaviour as “healthy” or “sick.” The result is to establish the medical profession as a priestly caste, empowered by the state with ...