Josef Maximilian Schmidt

Josef Maximilian Schmidt (2015)

Josef Maximilian Schmidt (born January 17, 1954 in Munich ) is a German medical historian , philosopher and general practitioner .

Life

Schmidt attended the Maria-Theresia-Gymnasium in Munich, studied medicine, philosophy, theology and history of medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) from 1973 , where he received his doctorate in medicine in 1980 and philosophy in 1990. Important teachers were Robert Spaemann , Reinhard Löw , Eberhard Simons and Paul Ulrich Unschuld . In 2005 he completed his habilitation for the history of medicine at the LMU Munich, and in 2013 he was appointed adjunct professor for the history of medicine.

After obtaining his license to practice medicine (1980) , Schmidt completed his medical training at the Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University of Munich and in Munich hospitals and practices in the subjects of internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, ear, nose and throat medicine and general medicine. He has been a specialist in general medicine since 1994 , and has also acquired additional medical qualifications in homeopathy (1985), naturopathic treatment (1990) and quality management (1999). As a study coordinator and investigator, he carried out clinical studies on therapeutic fasting and homeopathy at the Munich Hospital for Natural Healing from 1995 to 2001 .

From 1991 to 1992 Schmidt was Research Associate at the Department of the History of Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco , from 1992 to 2005 lecturer and from 2005 to 2013 private lecturer for the history of medicine at LMU Munich. Since 1988 affiliated with the Institute for the History of Medicine as a freelancer, he worked there from 2007 to 2011 as a research assistant. Since the institute was renamed and realigned, he has been a freelance researcher at the Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine at the Medical Faculty of the LMU Munich, where he has been Professor of the History of Medicine since 2013 .

Schmidt is, among other things, a member of the German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology, founded in 1901 .

Act

Schmidt's university courses cover a wide spectrum of the history and theory of medicine , from the medical science of the ancient high cultures to the medicine of the 20th century, from basic anthropological and epistemological questions to the socio-economic perspectives of modern medical criticism. In his lectures at international congresses at home and abroad as well as in the annual Köthener summer courses in homeopathy history, the thematic focus is on the history and theory of homeopathy, since, according to Schmidt, the scientific dispute about this controversial healing method is particularly suitable, the relationship between To develop philosophy and medicine scientifically.

Schmidt's thesis is that a complex, multi-layered and centuries-old healing method such as homeopathy can only be adequately grasped in its diverse relationships through a multidimensional, multi-perspective approach, for which - beyond the natural sciences - the humanities , historical , social and cultural studies . In this way, consistent scientific preoccupation with a historically grown and often proven complementary healing art inevitably leads to a broadening of the horizon from which questions like “What is medicine?”, “What is health or healing?” Or “What is it Human? ”Should be put back and considered.

Research priorities

• History of medicine as cultural history
• Philosophy and theory of medicine , philosophy of science
• History and Theory of Homeopathy, Naturopathy and Traditional Chinese Medicine

Awards

• Scholarship from the Robert Bosch Foundation 1987–1988
• Scholarship from the German Research Foundation 1991–1992
• Professor Alfons Stiegele Research Prize for Homeopathy 1993
• Science Award Samuel Hahnemann of the city of birth Meissen 2015.
• Honorary Membership was established in 1829 the German Central Association of Homeopathic Physicians 2016

Works

Monographs

• Bibliography of the writings of Samuel Hahnemann. Siegle-Verlag, Rauenberg 1989, ISBN 3-9802320-0-X ( PDF; 6 MB ).
• The classic acupuncture points . History and synopsis of their German translations from 1954 to 1988. Medical-Literary Publishing Society, Uelzen 1990, ISBN 3-88136-139-1 ( PDF; 14 MB ).
• The philosophical ideas of Samuel Hahnemann in the establishment of homeopathy (up to the Organon of rational medicine, 1810). Sonntag-Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-87758-072-6 ( PDF; 69 MB ).
• Pocket atlas of homeopathy in words and pictures. Basics, methodology and history. Haug-Verlag, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-8304-7089-4 ( PDF; 29 MB ).
• Homeopathy and therapeutic fasting . Controlled clinical study with Thyreoidinum 30C in weight stagnation in therapeutic fasting patients. KVC-Verlag, Essen 2003, ISBN 3-933351-35-9 .
• Writings on the history and theory of homeopathy. bge-Verlag, Munich 2016.
  • Volume 1: The philosophy of Samuel Hahnemann in the establishment of homeopathy. ISBN 978-3-945432-02-0 ( preface; PDF; 230 kB ).
  • Volume 2: Compact knowledge of homeopathy - basics, methodology and history. ISBN 978-3-945432-04-4 ( preface; PDF; 242 kB ).
  • Volume 3: The Köthener Summer Courses Homeopathic History 1–10 (2006–2015). ISBN 978-3-945432-05-1 ( preface; PDF; 234 kB ).
  • Volume 4: Collected Small Writings. Part 1 (1988-2003). ISBN 978-3-945432-06-8 ( preface; PDF; 235 kB ).
  • Volume 5: Collected Small Writings. Part 2 (2005-2015). ISBN 978-3-945432-07-5 ( preface; PDF; 228 kB ).
  • Volume 6: English Articles and Abstracts (1988-2015). ISBN 978-3-945432-08-2 ( Preface; PDF; 218 kB ).

Posts (in German)

• Anthropology and medicine. On the image of man from different therapeutic concepts. In: Allgemeine Homöopathische Zeitung. Volume 237, No. 3, 1992, pp. 95-104, doi: 10.1055 / s-2006-936401 ( PDF; 1MB ) and Volume 237, No. 4, 1992, pp. 140-148, doi: 10.1055 / s -2006-936409 ( PDF; 1 MB ).
• Basics and developments in homeopathy. In: German Medical Weekly . Volume 118, No. 29/30, 1993, pp. 1085-1090. PMID 8330511 ( PDF; 1 MB ).
• The Development of Homeopathy in the United States . In: Gesnerus . Volume 51, No. 1/2, 1994, pp. 84-100. PMID 8088568 ( PDF; 2 MB ).
• The emergence, spread and development of healing systems as an object of medical history - using the example of homeopathy. In: Sudhoff's archive . Volume 91, No. 1, 2007, pp. 38-72. PMID 17564158 ( PDF; 7 MB ).
• Homeopathy and Homeostasis . In: World in flux. Case studies on the homeostasis model. Edited by Jörg Martin, Jörg Hardy and Stephan Cartier. Franz Steiner Verlag , Stuttgart 2008, pp. 143–161 ( PDF; 2 MB ).
• Homeopathy in the field of tension between Aristotelian and modern science . In: Swiss Journal for Holistic Medicine. Volume 21, No. 2, 2009, pp. 105-111, doi: 10.1159 / 000287220 ( PDF 89 kB ).
• Medical-theoretical and scientific-historical perspectives of a revision of the materia medica homoeopathica. In: Swiss Journal for Holistic Medicine. Volume 22, No. 4, 2010, pp. 232-238, doi: 10.1159 / 000317193 ( PDF; 657 kB ).
• Health ! - History and concepts of the key concept of medicine. In: Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift . Volume 122, No. 17/18, 2010, pp. 538-542, doi: 10.1007 / s00508-010-1429-7 . PMID 20798991 ( PDF; 1 MB ).
• Samuel Hahnemann and the principle of similars . In: Medicine, Society and History. Volume 29, 2011 2010, pp. 151-184. PMID 21796902 ( PDF; 6 MB ).
• Hahnemann's homeopathy between rational medicine and the art of healing. In: Swiss Journal for Holistic Medicine. Volume 23, No. 4, 2011, pp. 224-232, doi: 10.1159 / 000330190 ( PDF; 304 kB ).
• Thure von Uexküll's semiotic model of the human being as the basis for a modern theory of homeopathy. In: Swiss Journal for Holistic Medicine. Volume 24, No. 4, 2012, pp. 233-241, doi: 10.1159 / 000341352 ( PDF; 244 kB ).
• On the relevance of basic research in science, medicine and social history . In: Swiss Journal for Holistic Medicine. Volume 25, No. 4, 2013, pp. 231-240, doi: 10.1159 / 000353925 ( PDF; 310 kB ).
• Hahnemann's theory and practice and the modern problem of knowledge . In: Swiss Journal for Holistic Medicine. Volume 26, No. 1, 2014, pp. 45–54, doi: 10.1159 / 000358245 ( PDF; 536 kB ).
• Homeopathy as a therapeutic action science sui generis - a human scientific argumentation. In: Journal of Classical Homeopathy. Volume 59, No. 4, 2015, pp. 180–186, doi: 10.1055 / s-0041-108543 ( PDF; 3 MB ).
• Polyperspectivity in Medicine: Dilemma or Opportunity? On the holistic nature of Hahnemann's homeopathy. In: Swiss Journal for Holistic Medicine. Volume 29, No. 6, 2017, pp. 376–384, doi: 10.1159 / 000481676 ( PDF; 99 kB ).
• Health as a key concept . In: Change in the concept of health and illness. Edited by Elmar Brähler, Hans-Wolfgang Hoefert, Christoph Klotter. Pabst Science Publishers, Lengerich 2018, pp. 44–56 ( PDF; 453 kB ).

Editing

• Samuel Hahnemann: Organon of the healing art . Critical edition of the sixth edition. Haug-Verlag, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 3-7760-1253-6 ( PDF; 6 MB ).
• Samuel Hahnemann: Organon of the healing art. Standard edition of the sixth edition. Based on the text-critical edition of Hahnemann's manuscript (1842) edited by the editor in 1992. Haug-Verlag, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-7760-1590-X ( foreword by the editor; PDF; 760 kB ).
• with Daniel Kaiser: Samuel Hahnemann: Collected small writings. Haug-Verlag, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-8304-7031-2 ( Introduction; PDF; 1 MB ).
• Samuel Hahnemann: Organon of the healing art. New version with system and glossary . 2nd Edition. Elsevier, Munich / Jena 2006, ISBN 3-437-56621-0 ( editor's foreword; PDF; 2 MB ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Josef M. Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Josef M. Schmidt on the website of the Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich
• Open Access publications by Josef M. Schmidt on the website of the repository of the university library of the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
• Interview with Josef M. Schmidt in the newsletter of the Homeopathy Foundation , No. 3, 2015, pp. 2–3.
• Interview with Josef M. Schmidt in the Allgemeine Homöopathische Zeitung. Volume 261, No. 4, 2016, ISSN  1438-2563 , pp. 22-25, doi: 10.1055 / s-0042-107296
• Entry about Josef M. Schmidt in Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Josef M. Schmidt: The philosophical ideas of Samuel Hahnemann in the establishment of homeopathy (up to the Organon of the rational medicine, 1810). Sonntag-Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-87758-072-6 , p. IX.
2. ^ Josef M. Schmidt: The therapeutic fasting basic documentation at the hospital for natural healing methods (1995-1999). Prospective documentation of 2000 clinical and subjective parameters of 3400 therapeutic fasting patients, with follow-up surveys after 1, 4 and 12 months. Hospital for Natural Healing, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-8311-2270-9 .
3. ↑ Josef M. Schmidt, Benno Ostermayr: Does a homeopathic ultramolecular dilution of Thyoidinum 30cH affect the rate of body weight reduction in fasting patients? A randomized placebo-controlled double-blind clinical trial. In: Homeopathy . Volume 91, No. 4, 2002, pp. 197-206.
4. ^ History of the chair on the website of the institute.
5. ↑ Short biography of Josef M. Schmidt.
6. ^ Lectures by Josef M. Schmidt at the LMU Munich.
7. ^ Lectures by Josef M. Schmidt in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, England, the Netherlands, Sweden, Latvia, Poland, Russia, the USA, Mexico, Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, India and Japan.
8. ↑ The Köthener Summer Course in Homeopathy History (2006–2015) on the website of the Scientific Society for Homeopathy.
9. ^ Sandra Würtenberger: 7th Köthener Summer Course in Homeopathy History - Report by a participant. In: Journal of Classical Homeopathy. Volume 56, No. 4, 2012, p. 216.
10. ^ Sandra Würtenberger: 8th Köthener summer course in homeopathy history. In: Journal of Classical Homeopathy. Volume 57, No. 4, 2013, pp. 226-227.
11. ^ Dietrich Wendling: 9th Köthen summer course "Homeopathy". In: Journal of Classical Homeopathy. Volume 58, No. 4, 2014, pp. 217-218.
12. ↑ Gerhard W. Müller: Report from the 10th Köthen summer course on 12. – 13. September 2015. In: Journal of Classical Homeopathy. Volume 59, No. 4, 2015, pp. 217-218.
13. ↑ Josef M. Schmidt: Homeopathy and Philosophy. Attempt at a philosophical reconstruction of the foundation of homeopathy by Samuel Hahnemann. In: Crossroads . Volume 20, 1990/91, pp. 141-165.
14. ↑ Josef M. Schmidt: The Simile Way as "deuteros plous" in medicinal therapy - conception and reception. In: Documenta Homoeopathica. Volume 12, 1992, pp. 51-59.
15. ^ Josef M. Schmidt: The emergence, spread and development of healing systems as an object of medical history - using the example of homeopathy. In: Sudhoff's archive . Volume 91, No. 1, 2007, pp. 38-72.
16. ↑ Josef M. Schmidt: On the relevance of basic research in science, medicine and social history. In: Swiss Journal for Holistic Medicine. Volume 25, No. 4, 2013, pp. 231-240.
17. ↑ Josef M. Schmidt: Homeopathy as therapeutic action science sui generis - a human scientific argumentation. In: Journal of Classical Homeopathy. Volume 59, No. 4, 2015, pp. 180-186.
18. ^ Josef M. Schmidt: Health! - History and concepts of the key concept of medicine. In: Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift . Vol. 122, No. 17/18, 2010, pp. 538-542.
19. ↑ Josef M. Schmidt: The human being from the point of view of homeopathy - Hahnemann's teleological image of man and its implications. In: Naturheilpraxis. Volume 62, No. 2, 2009, pp. 213-221.
20. ↑ Information on the award ceremony in the Deutsches Ärzteblatt .
21. ↑ Review by Robert Jütte : Excellent learning aid. Josef M. Schmidt: Pocket atlas of homeopathy in words and pictures. Basics, methodology and history. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . Volume 99, No. 5, 2002, p. A280.