Hinz-Wessels Annette
Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin.
Medizinhist J. 2008;43(3-4):294-326.
This article examines for the case of yellow fever research in Germany in the first half of the 20th century how political and military conditions affected the interests of scientific research. As a tropical disease, yellow fever was unknown in Germany and very rare in the German colonies and thus of little scientific or political interest. But this changed once the National Socialists began pursuing their wars of conquest. In preparation for a new colonial empire and a military mission in Africa, yellow fever research became increasingly important. The chief beneficiary of this development was the Robert Koch-Institute in Berlin, where Eugen Haagen worked after his time as a researcher in the Yellow Fever Laboratory in New York. In collaboration with the army and the industry, he used human experiments in his efforts to develop a vaccine for mass production. Ultimately, the vaccine's application was prevented by the German surrender in North Africa.
本文以20世纪上半叶德国黄热病研究为例，探讨政治和军事状况如何影响科学研究的利益。作为一种热带疾病，黄热病在德国不为人知，在德国殖民地也极为罕见，因此在科学或政治上几乎没有什么兴趣。但在纳粹开始进行征服战争后，情况发生了变化。为了筹备一个新的殖民帝国以及在非洲的军事任务，黄热病研究变得越来越重要。这一发展的主要受益者是柏林的罗伯特·科赫研究所，尤金·哈根在纽约黄热病实验室担任研究员后，便在该研究所工作。他与军队和工业界合作，通过人体实验努力研发一种可大规模生产的疫苗。最终，由于德国在北非的投降，该疫苗未能得到应用。
