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HANS HINSELMANN: A CONTROVERSIAL TEACHER. (1884 – 1959)

Vesna Harni ; Ginekološka poliklinika, Dankovečka 1a, 10040 Zagreb


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Abstract

Hans Hinselmann, a german gynecologist who spent his whole life to gynaecology and oncology, became world-famous with the invention of the colposcopy. During the World War II he performed compulsory sterilisations according to the Low in the Third Reich. After the war, he was sentenced to imprisonment by Military Government Court at Hamburg, under Law No. 10, for sterilisation of hospital inmates. He was rehabilitated and denacified in 1949, thereafter he continued his work in his private colposcopic practice. He died 1959 in Hamburg.

Keywords

Hinselmann; life; colposcopy; history of gynaecology

Hrčak ID:

65973

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/65973

Publication date:

1.12.2009.

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