Description: The contributors to this book reflect on the history of sexuality, family planning, and reproduction in Central and Eastern Europe.
Brief description: Fritz Dross, born in 1965, works as an assistant professor at the institute for the history of medicine and medical ethics at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Erlangen. The historian did his doctorate on the history of urban hospitals around 1800 in Düsseldorf. In his research, he focuses on the history of hospitals, health care provision and poor relief in the early modern period as well as the history of gynecology in the 20th century.