Hans-Ulrich Deppe

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Hans-Ulrich Deppe (born March 20, 1939 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German medical sociologist and social medicine specialist . He was director of the Institute for Medical Sociology in the Faculty of Medicine at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Hans-Ulrich Deppe studied medicine, sociology and political science in Frankfurt am Main, Berlin , Würzburg and Marburg . In 1965 he received his doctorate in medicine on a biochemical topic. Despite his scientific training, he always had a critical relationship with conventional medicine. He reproached her for neglecting the psychosocial dimension of sick people.

After his assistantship at the Sociological Institute of the University of Marburg with Werner Hofmann , he was appointed professor for medical sociology in the medical department of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in 1972 . Here he researched and taught as director of the institute of the same name until 2004, the year he retired . He has also been a member of the social sciences department since his appointment. He is connected to the so-called Marburg School, which is oriented towards Marxism .

Deppe founded numerous academic and science-political organizations or was significantly involved in them: the Critical Medicine Working Group (Marburg), the Institute for Medical Sociology at the University Hospital Frankfurt am Main , the journal Democratic Health System , the German Society for Medical Sociology , the List of Democratic Doctors in the State Medical Association of Hessen , the Association of Democratic Doctors (VDÄÄ) and the International Association of Health Policy (IAHP). In 1973 he was one of the main sponsors of the legendary medical-critical congress "Medicine and Social Progress" in Marburg. Among other things, Deppe was the founding president of the German Society for Medical Sociology and is still the Honorable President of the IAHP in Europe.

His brother is the political scientist Frank Deppe .

Scientific focus

His scientific work focuses on the political economy of the health system, the development of the German health system, the international comparison of health systems and research into social movements in the health system. This resulted in 28 books and around 300 publications in scientific and political journals. In 1999 and 2004 commemorative publications with the titles “Health and Democracy” and “Market versus Solidarity” were dedicated to him. In addition, Deppe advises political parties and unions on health policy issues.

Fonts (selection)

  • Industrial work and medicine , Frankfurt a. M. 1973. Fischer Athenaeum Verlag.
  • Medical Sociology, Aspects of a New Science , Frankfurt a. M. 1978. Fischer Verlag.
  • Illness cannot be cured without politics , Frankfurt a. M. 1987. Suhrkamp Verlag.
  • Health Policy Perspectives , Frankfurt a. M. 1990. VAS Verlag.
  • Forced sterilization in Frankfurt a. M. 1933-1945 , Frankfurt a. M. 1991. Campus Verlag. (Together with M. Daum)
  • Social responsibility and transformation of health systems , Frankfurt a. M. 1996. VAS publishing house for academic writings.
  • On the social anatomy of the health system, neoliberalism and health policy in Germany , Frankfurt a. M. 2000. VAS publishing house for academic writings. 2nd revised and expanded edition 2002, 3rd updated edition 2005.
  • Medicine and Social Progress . Initiative group medicine and social progress, Cologne 1973. Pahl-Rugenstein-Verlag. (ed.)
  • Medicine, society, history. Contributions to the history of the development of medical sociology , Frankfurt a. M. 1975. Suhrkamp Verlag. (Ed. with M. Regus)
  • Neglected health. On the relationship between health, state and society in the FRG , Cologne 1980. Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch. (ed.)
  • Health systems and health policy in Western Europe , Frankfurt a. M./New York 1983. Campus Verlag. (ed.)
  • Medicine and Economic Competition , Frankfurt a. M. 1998, VAS publishing house for academic writings. (ed.)
  • Solidarity health policy, alternatives to privatization and two-class medicine , Hamburg 2002, VSA-Verlag. (Ed. with W. Burkhardt)
  • Health Policy in Europe: Contemporary dilemmas and challenges , Lightning Source UK Ltd, 2007. (Ed. With A. Benos and J. Lister)

swell

  • Kürschner's German Scholar's Calendar
  • Who is who? : The German who's who

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Lothar Peter: Marx to the University, p. 102, footnote 198.
  2. ↑ Lothar Peter : Marx to the university. The “Marburg School” - history, problems, actors. PapyRossa, Cologne 2014, p. 102, footnote 198.

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personal data
SURNAME Deppe, Hans-Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical sociologist and social medicine specialist
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main