Heinz Schott (medical historian)

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Heinz Gustav Schott (born August 8, 1946 in Bergzabern ) is a German medical historian , university professor and local politician. His main areas of work are the history of psychiatry , medicine in Goethe's time, alchemical medicine and the history of medical anthropology . Schott has written or edited several books on the history of medicine .

Life

After studying medicine from 1966 to 1971 in Heidelberg , Glasgow (Royal Infirmary) and Munich he was in 1974 when Wolfgang Jacob Institute of Pathology in Heidelberg for Dr. med. PhD . In 1975 he received his license to practice medicine . From 1972 to 1977 he studied philosophy at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg. In Heidelberg he was in 1977 when Michael Theunissen to Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1978 to 1987 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In 1982, he was there for the subject History of Medicine habilitated and appointed professor 1,983th

In 1987 the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn appointed him C4 Professor for the History of Medicine and Director of the Medical History Institute.

From 2009 to 2015, Heinz Schott was a member of the board of the Viktor von Weizsäcker Society.

He has been married to the pediatrician Elisabeth Schott since 1973, with whom he has three children.

politics

Schott was also active in local politics. For the Bürger Bund Bonn , a free electoral association, he ran in 1994 as a top candidate for the Bonn city ​​council, in 1999 and 2004 as Bonn mayor, but was not elected.

honors and awards

Fonts

  • Work and illness: a medico-sociological contribution to the problem of rehabilitation. Attempt to take stock that is critical of science. 1974 ( Dissertation , University of Heidelberg , Faculty of Medicine, 1974).
  • Dream and neurosis: Explanations on Freud's concept of disease (= Yearbook of Psychoanalysis. Supplement No. 5). Huber, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-456-80661-2 (dissertation, University of Heidelberg , Philosophical Faculty, 1978, under the title: The concept of disease and the criticism of science ).
  • Magic mirror of the soul: Sigmund Freund and the history of self-analysis ( Vandenhoeck collection ). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1985, ISBN 3-525-01408-2 ( habilitation thesis at the University of Freiburg (Breisgau) 1982).
  • with Eduard Seidler (ed.): Building blocks for the history of medicine. Heinrich Schipperges on his 65th birthday. Stuttgart 1984 (= Sudhoffs Archive , Supplement 24).
  • with Rainer Tölle : History of Psychiatry: Diseases, wrong ways, forms of treatment . Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-53555-0 .
  • with Walter Bruchhausen: History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine (= UTB . 2915). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-03711-9 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), ISBN 978-3-8252-2915-3 (UTB).
  • Magic of nature. Historical variations on a healing art motif , two volumes. Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8440-2444-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Current and former board members Viktor von Weizsäcker Gesellschaft , accessed on January 10, 2017.
  2. ↑ Member entry by Heinz Schott (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 22, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Schott, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schott, Heinz Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical historian, university professor and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergzabern