Daniel Schäfer (medical historian)

Daniel Schäfer (born January 18, 1964 in Stuttgart ) is a German medical historian and works at the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine at the University of Cologne .

His main areas of work are the history of old age and geriatrics since early modern times , the history and ethics of gynecology , the history of health and medical prevention in the 20th century, the history of death, and the relationship between medicine and literature . Schäfer has published numerous works (monographs, journal articles and book chapters) on these areas.

Life

After graduating from high school at the humanistic Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart, Schäfer began studying human medicine in 1984 , and since 1986 also German and medical history at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . In 1989 he received the academic degree Magister Artium and in 1993 at the seminar for Germanic Philology with Konrad Kunze he became a Dr. phil. PhD . In 1994 the medical examination followed, in 1996 the doctorate to Dr. med. with Eduard Seidler , 2004 license to practice medicine. Since 1995 Schäfer has been working at the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine at the University of Cologne. There he completed his habilitation under Klaus Bergdolt in 2002 for the subject of the history and ethics of medicine and was appointed adjunct professor in 2007 and senior academic council in 2008. For his revised habilitation thesis, he and 13 other authors received the prize to promote the translation of works in the humanities ("Humanities International") from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation , the German Book Trade Association and the Foreign Office in April 2009 .

Publications (selection)

• Death and medicine. Brief history of an approach. Heidelberg, Springer Spectrum 2015, ISBN 978-3-662-45206-6 . Also published as an e-book ( ISBN 978-3-662-45207-3 ).
• as publisher: Rheinische midwife history in context . kassel university press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-89958-944-3 . With a contribution by Reinhold Zilch : The Prussian Ministry of Culture and the official midwifery textbooks 1815–1904. , Pp. 157-195.
• as ed. with Héctor Wittwer and Andreas Frewer: Die und Tod. An interdisciplinary manual. History, theory, ethics . JB Metzler, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-476-02230-1 .
• as an editor with Andreas Frewer, Eberhard Schockenhoff and Verena Wetzstein: Health concepts in transition: history, ethics and society . Steiner, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-515-09076-6 .
• Age and Illness in the Early Modern Era. The medical view of the last phase of life. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-593-37462-5 . (Habilitation thesis).
  • English under the title: Old Age and Disease in Early Modern Medicine . Pickering & Chatto, London 2011, ISBN 978-1-84893-020-9 .
• Birth from death. The caesarean section of deceased pregnant women in western culture. (= Writings on the history of science. Volume 20). Guido Pressler, Hürtgenwald 1999, ISBN 3-87646-089-1 .
• as publisher together with others: Tradition and Challenge: 100 Years of the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics. Biermann, Zülpich 1998, ISBN 3-930505-28-2 .
• Texts from death. For the representation and meaning of death in the late Middle Ages . (= Göppingen work on German studies. No. 620). Kümmerle, Göppingen 1995, ISBN 3-87452-866-9 . (Dissertation)

Web links

• Literature by and about Daniel Schäfer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the Cologne Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine
• Website for the "Humanities international" program
• Online edition of Rhenish Midwifery History in Context (PDF; 6.2 MB)
• The role of the medical humanists in the cultural transfer between the ancient and the renaissance using the example of early pediatrics and geriatrics , in: Europäische Geschichte Online , ed. from the Institute for European History (Mainz) , 2011, accessed on: November 11, 2011.