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Viele kranke Kinder – emotives Tun bei Jane Addams und Dr. Alice Hamilton im Kontext humanitärer Hilfe nach Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges

    Philipp Reichrath

VIRUS Band 22, pp. 185-196, 2023/12/28

Schwerpunkt: Epidemie und Emotion

doi: 10.1553/virus22s185

doi: 10.1553/virus22s185


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doi:10.1553/virus22



doi:10.1553/virus22s185



doi:10.1553/virus22s185

Abstract

This report reconstructs ‘doing emotions’ – a praxeological concept of emotion – in a 1919 travel report by the social reformers Jane Addams and Dr. Alice Hamilton that is concerned with advocating humanitarian aid. This report on the social situation of the civilian population in Germany was written after the end of the First World War. It provides revealing insights into the realities of life with special regards to the situation of children in 1918/1919. The report predominantly highlights the distressing situation of children who were at particular risk of illness and suffering because of starvation and infectious diseases. After a brief introduction to the history of Addams and Hamilton’s work, this paper will discuss Addams’ method of ‘sympathetic understanding’ in praxeological terms on the basis of the travel report.

Keywords: Aftermath of World War I, doing emotions, Women’s Movement, sympathetic understanding, Jane Addams, relief efforts, Germany