Research Unit for the History and Ethics of Medicine
Research Profile


History of Medicine:

  • Comparative history of medicine of the 19th and 20th century
  • Scientific change and international knowledge transfer in medicine
  • Social and cultural history of medicine (“Psychiatry and Society”)
  • Medicine and Jews
  • Methods and theories of the history of medicine


Ethics in Medicine:

  • Medical malpractice in history and (culture of) memory
  • Violence in therapy


Medical education:

  • Educational reform in the past and present
  • Human and health sciences in the medical education