Heiner Fangerau

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Heiner Fangerau (born September 26, 1972 in Bremen ) is a German medical historian and medical ethicist .

Life

After graduating from high school at the Ursulaschule Osnabrück, Heiner Fangerau studied human medicine and theater, film and television studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum . After the 3rd state examination in medicine, he finished his studies and received his doctorate at the Institute for the History of Medicine of the Ruhr University with a thesis on the history of racial hygiene / eugenics in 2000. After clinical activities in the fields of neurology and psychiatry in Bremen and Bonn and a time as a scholarship holder of the Graduate School GRK 246 "Pathogenesis of Diseases of the Nervous System" at the University Clinic Bonn 2000–2002, he worked from 2002 to 2003 as a research assistant at the Institute for Ethics and History of medicine at the Georg-August University of Göttingenbefore working as a research assistant at the Institute for the History of Medicine at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf from 2003 to 2008 . Here he completed his habilitation in 2007 for the "History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine".

In 2008 he accepted a professorship for the history, theory and ethics of medicine at the University of Ulm , where he was the (founding) director of the university's newly created institute for the history, theory and ethics of medicine until 2014 Ulm worked. In 2014, after being appointed to the W3 professorship there, he moved to the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine at the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne as director . In 2015 he accepted a professorship for the history, theory and ethics of medicine at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf . There he heads the institute of the same name.

From 2011 to 2014 Heiner Fangerau was chairman of the ethics committee of the University of Ulm and of the committee for clinical ethics advice of the University of Ulm. From 2011 to 2014 Heiner Fangerau was a member of the ethics committee of the Baden-Württemberg State Medical Association. He was also the spokesman for the Humboldt Study Center for Philosophy and Humanities at Ulm University until 2014. Here he was involved in the establishment of a department for philosophy, languages, humanities and general further education, which aimed to promote the humanities at Ulm University.

He is a member of the board of the Society for the History of Science (since 2011). From 2010 to 2013 he was the chairman of the Medical History Association. In 2013 he was elected President of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH).

He is co-editor of the Medizinhistorisches Journal, Sudhoffs Archiv , Medicine Studies and the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Family Issues at the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth.

In 2014 he received an honorary doctorate (Dr. hc) from the Carol Davila Medical and Pharmaceutical University of Bucharest . In 2017 Heiner Fangerau was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

His work focuses on the history and ethics of medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of medical diagnostics as well as network analysis of medical history and the medical ethical questions of the 21st century.

Fonts

Monographs

  • Spinning the Scientific Web: Jacques Loeb (1859–1924) and his program of international basic biomedical research. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2010.
  • Establishment of a standard work on racial hygiene 1921–1941. The Baur-Fischer-Lenz in the mirror of contemporary review literature. (= Marburg writings on the history of medicine. Volume 43). 2001.

Editorships

  • with T. Becker, P. Fassl and H.-G. Hofer (Ed.): Psychiatry in the First World War , Books on Demand, Norderstedt near Hamburg 2018.
  • with S. Topp and K. Schepker (eds.): Child and youth psychiatry in National Socialism and in the post-war period: On the history of their consolidation . Springer, Berlin 2017
  • with C. Lenk and G. Duttge (eds.): Handbook Ethics and Law of Research on Humans. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2014.
  • with H. Geisler, T. Halling and W. Martin (Eds.): Classification and Evolution in Biology, Linguistics and the History of Science. Concepts, Methods, Visualization. Steiner, Stuttgart 2013.
  • with I. Müller (Ed.): Faszinosum des Verborgenen. The urinary stone and the (re-) presentation of the invisible in urology. Steiner, Stuttgart 2012.
  • with T. Halling (Ed.): Networks: A general theory or the application of a universal metaphor in the sciences. Transcript, Bielefeld 2009.
  • with K. Nolte (Ed.): 'Modern' Institutional Psychiatry in the 19th and 20th Century - Legitimation and Criticism. Steiner, Stuttgart 2006.
  • with S. Schulz, T. Noack and I. Müller (eds.): Medical terminology - a compact course. Woeste, Essen 2006.
  • with S. Schulz, K. Steigleder and N. Paul (eds.): History, theory and ethics of medicine. An introduction. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2006.

Articles in magazines and books

  • with G. Badura-Lotter: Use of medical technology and mechanization of medicine - reflections in the run-up to the annual conference of the AEM 2014. In: Ethics in medicine. 26 (3), 2014, pp. 177-179.
  • with M. Martin: Transparency Regime: On the Semiotics of Radiographic Images in Urological Diagnostics. In: The Urologist. 51, 2012, pp. 1450-1458.
  • The novel Arrowsmith, Paul de Kruif (1890–1971) and Jacques Loeb (1859–1924): A literary portrait of “medical science”. In: Medical Humanities. 32, 2006, pp. 82-87.
  • with N. Paul: Neural Transplantation and Medical Ethics: A Contemporary History of Moral Concerns Regarding Cerebral Stem Cell and Gene Therapy. In: J. Clausen, N. Levy (Eds.): Handbook of Neuroethics. vol. 2, Springer, Dordrecht et al. 2014, pp. 845–858.
  • Medicine and Closed Accommodation: The Tension Between Medical Ethics and Social Mission. In: M. Dudeck, J. Kaspar, M. Lindemann (eds.): Responsibility and attribution in the mirror of criminal law and psychiatry. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2014, pp. 73–85.
  • with M. Martin: Measuring blood pressure: The 'technicalization' of circulatory diagnostics. In: Technomuseum (Ed.): Herzblut. History and future of medical technology. Theiss / WBG, Darmstadt 2014, pp. 74–93.
  • with A. Goergen and M. Griemmert: Child Welfare and Child Protection: Medicalization and Scandalization as the New Norms in Dealing with Violence Against Children. In: A. Bagattini, C. Macleod (Eds.): The Nature of Children's Well-Being. Theory and Practice. Springer, Dordrecht et al. 2014, pp. 209–225.
  • Evolution of knowledge from a network perspective: recognition as a selective factor in the history of science. In: H. Fangerau, H. Geisler, T. Halling, W. Martin (Eds.): Classification and Evolution in Biology, Linguistics and the History of Science. Concepts, Methods, Visualization. Steiner, Stuttgart 2013, 2013, pp. 11–32.
  • On the history of synthetic biology. In: K. Koechy, A. Huempel (Ed.): Synthetic Biology. Development of a new engineering biology? Subject volume of the interdisciplinary working group on genetic engineering report. (= Research reports of the interdisciplinary working groups of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Volume 30). Forum W-Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Dornburg 2012, pp. 61–84.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for the History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine of the Medical Faculty of the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf
  2. ↑ Department of Philosophy, Languages, Humanities and General Further Education
  3. ^ Society for the History of Science
  4. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Heiner Fangerau at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on December 8, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Fangerau, Heiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical historian and medical ethicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen