Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Bekämpfung des Kurpfuschertums

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Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Bekämpfung des Kurpfuschertums
AbbreviationDGBK
Formation1903 (1903)
Dissolved1934 (1934)
TypeNonprofit organisation
PurposeConsumer protection against quackery
Region served
Germany
Membership
30,000 (1928)[1]
Founder
Carl Alexander
AffiliationsÄrztlicher Vereinsbund, Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Bekämpfung der Geschlechtskrankheiten

The Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Bekämpfung des Kurpfuschertums (DGBK; English: German Society for Fighting Quackery) was a skeptical association founded in 1903 for consumer protection against quackery. It opposed the Kurierfreiheit ("Curing freedom", the right to treat illnesses without being medically educated), that existed in Germany from 1869/1872 until the adoption of the Heilpraktikergesetz ("Healers' Law") in 1939. The association originated after the example of the Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Bekämpfung der Geschlechtskrankheiten (DGBG; "German Society for Fighting Venereal Diseases"), and is counted as one of the predecessors of the Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften (GWUP).[2]

History

On Quackery and How To Fight It (1929), a book published by the DGBK.

Since 1899, there was a Quackery Commission in the umbrella organisation of physicians' associations, the Ärztlicher Vereinsbund.

antivaxxers and also doctors who practised homeopathy. The association primarily sought to warn the public against unskilled lay healers. In 1911, the DGBK participated with the DGBG in the International Hygiene Exhibition of Karl August Lingner, the founder of Odol (a mouthwash brand), in Dresden, to which other organisations were demonstratively not invited.[5] In response, in the summer of 1911 a counter-event was held entitled "Congress of Naturopathy and People's Welfare".[6] The association managed to combine left and conservative forces alike[4] and organise travelling exhibitions.[7] In 1927, 53,000 paying visitors came to an exhibition in Ludwigshafen.[8]

In 1929, the DGBK suggested creating a

medical treatment or obstetrics without appropriate education.[9]

After the

Nazi seizure of power
in 1933, the magazine Gesundheitslehrer ceased publication in 1934 and the DGBK was dissolved.

Publications

Literature

References

  1. ^ Inge Hüsgen, Amardeo Sarma (13 December 2010). "Skeptiker-Organisationen" (in German). GWUP website. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
  2. ^ "War die GWUP die erste deutsche Skeptiker-Organisation" (in German). GWUP website. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  3. ^
    ISBN 9783515079761
    . pp. 171f.
  4. ^
    ISBN 9783515073936
    . p. 427
  5. ^ Sybilla Nikolow: Der statistische Blick auf Krankheit und Gesundheit. ›Kurvenlandschaften‹ in Gesundheitsausstellungen am Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland. In: Ute Gerhard, Jürgen Link und Ernst Schulte-Holtey (publisher): Infografiken, Medien, Normalisierung: Zur Kartografie politisch-sozialer Landschaften. Synchron, Wiss.-Verl. der Autoren, Heidelberg 2001 (Diskursivitäten ; Bd. 1), pp. 223–241.
  6. ISBN 9783515068352
    . p. 57
  7. ISBN 9783642944956
    . p. 107
  8. ^ Werner Appel: 100 Jahre Städtestatistik in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. In: Stadt Ludwigshafen am Rhein (publisher): Stadtentwicklung 2014. Heft 3/2014. p. 27
  9. ISBN 9783110155006
    . p. 267

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