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Yusuf Ibrahim (May 27, 1877 in Cairo, Egypt – February 3, 1953 in Jena, Germany), also known as Yusuf Bey Murad Ibrahim, was a
by Katrin Zeiss, in '' Die Zeit''; published April 27, 2000; retrieved February 7, 2019
Yusuf Ibrahim (May 27, 1877 in Cairo, Egypt – February 3, 1953 in Jena, Germany), also known as Yusuf Bey Murad Ibrahim, was a physician
A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...
and pediatrician. He was responsible for the description of congenital cutaneous candidiasis
Congenital cutaneous candidiasis is a type of candida infection in newborn babies, which appears as generalized red patches and small bumps on the skin or in the mouth, appearing at birth or a few days after birth. It can also occur as more serio ...
, originally known as Beck-Ibrahim disease. The discovery of his association with the Nazi euthanasia program during the World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
resulted in an effort to rename this disease. The clinic for child and adolescent medicine at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena also chose to change its name from ''Kinderklinik Jussuf Ibrahim'' after his Nazi past was uncovered.Kein Wohltäterby Katrin Zeiss, in '' Die Zeit''; published April 27, 2000; retrieved February 7, 2019
See also
*List of medical eponyms with Nazi associations
This article lists medical eponyms which have been associated with Nazi human experimentation or Nazi politics. While normally eponyms used in medicine serve to honor the memory of the physician or researcher who first documented a disease or pion ...
References
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