VIRUS Band 17, pp. 275-283, 2020/07/21
Schwerpunkt: Medikalisierte Kindheiten
Die neue Sorge um
das Kind vom ausgehenden 19. bis ins späte 20. Jahrhundert
This paper examines the relevance of psychological or psychiatric expertise in the socialadministration of children and adolescents in the institutional care in Germany between the 1950s and the 1960s. Therefore, the article reconstructs the administrative action from two file records and analyzes the relevance of medical reports in these cases.
Keywords: Residential Care, West Germany, sociology of knowledge, document analysis, mental expertise, administrational action
