Description: English summary: The basic right to submit a petition has been exercised by increasingly more people since the end of the Second World War. Of the nearly 19,200 petitions filed with the state government of Baden-Wuerttemburg between 1946 and 1980, nearly 8 percent on average dealt with issues of health and sickness.
Brief description: Sylvelyn Hahner-Rombach, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut fur Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Pflegegeschichte, Patientengeschichte, Psychiatriegeschichte, Zeitgeschichte der Medizin, Geschichte der Pravention.