Beat Rüttimann

Beat Rüttimann (born February 21, 1945 in Muri AG ) is a Swiss medical historian .

Rüttimann studied medicine and received his doctorate in 1971 from the University of Zurich . In 1978 he obtained the title of specialist in orthopedic surgery and traumatology of the musculoskeletal system.

In 1983 Rüttimann completed his habilitation at the University of Zurich . At the beginning of the 1989/90 winter semester, he was appointed to succeed Huldrych M. Koelbing as full professor for the history of medicine and director of the Institute of Medical History at the University of Zurich. His successor was Flurin Condrau in 2011 .

criticism

In 2013, an international committee of experts commissioned by the University of Zurich came to the conclusion that a considerable part of the medical history dissertations that were written at the University of Zurich between 2002 and 2012 were defective; some were transcriptions with little or no commentary . This applies above all to the dissertations that were supervised by Christoph Mörgeli and his superior Beat Rüttimann. The poor quality of the dissertations can be attributed to insufficient supervision of the doctoral students.

Fonts (selection)

Wilhelm Schulthess (1855–1917) and the Swiss orthopedics of his time. Schulthess, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-7255-2219-7 ( habilitation thesis , University of Zurich, 1983).

Web links

Report by the Education and Health Supervisory Commission on the investigations relating to the Medical History Institute and Museum of the University of Zurich. KR no. 127/2014. Cantonal Council of Zurich from June 5, 2014 (PDF file)

Individual evidence

↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . 18th edition (2001). Vol. 2, p. 2676.
↑ Entry in the FMH-ÄrzteIndex , accessed on September 16, 2012.
↑ Gesnerus . Vol. 46/47 (1989), p. 271.
↑ Medical history dissertations: Scientific supervision of doctoral students was partially inadequate , press release from the University of Zurich of October 1, 2013, accessed on April 2, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Rüttimann, Beat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH	February 21, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Muri AG

[1] Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . 18th edition (2001). Vol. 2, p. 2676.

[2] Entry in the FMH-ÄrzteIndex , accessed on September 16, 2012.

[3] Gesnerus . Vol. 46/47 (1989), p. 271.

[4] Medical history dissertations: Scientific supervision of doctoral students was partially inadequate , press release from the University of Zurich of October 1, 2013, accessed on April 2, 2018.