<i>Paediatrics in the Reichsuniversität Straßburg: Children’s Medicine at a Bastion of Nazi Ideology</i>. Aisling Shalvey
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Paediatrics in the Reichsuniversität Straßburg provides a unique view of Nazi ideology’s influence on children’s health care by analyzing pediatric care at one hospital in occupied Alsace (France), established under the Nazi regime’s 1941 mandate. While the hospital’s existence was short-lived, surviving only until 1944, it garnered an enviable reputation for providing quality care to local citizens during the war. Rated the most productive research facility in the annexed territories, and the eighth most productive of all universities at the time, it was a privileged hospital that experienced no shortage of medical equipment, food, or hospital beds. Such benefits, however, were restricted to the care of those deemed worthy of life by Nazi ideology. Shalvey’s book examines the recently discovered hospital records of 869 children under age eighteen treated in clinical wards, 127 cared for in pediatric psychiatry units, and approximately 855 (15 percent of 5,704 records) cared for by internal medicine specialists. The author also evaluates the research of medical students trained at the hospital (all of whom had to be “approved” Aryans), as well as the research of senior staff.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.171 | 0.056 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".