Michael Knipper
Michael Knipper (* 1967 ) is a German medical historian .
Life
Knipper studied medicine at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the University of Oviedo . In 1996/97 he worked in child and youth medicine in Mechernich . In the German Academic Exchange Service he carried out ethnomedical field research in Ecuador from 1997 to 1999 . Since 2000 he has been a research assistant at the Medical History Institute of the University of Bonn and in 2001/02 in the tropical medicine outpatient department of the University Hospital Düsseldorf . In May 2003 he went to the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . In 2004 and 2005 he was visiting professor at the University of Granada in the Erasmus program . In the 2010/2011 winter semester , he completed his habilitation in the history, anthropology and ethics of medicine .
In the area of medical education and intercultural competence, he has been coordinating the university partnership with the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador and the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos since 2009 .
In 2014, Knipper received the Ars legendi Faculty Prize for Medicine.
Works
- Disease, culture and medical practice. A medical-ethnological study on "mal aire" in the Amazon lowlands of Ecuador . Münster (Westphalia) 2003. GoogleBooks
- Indian medicine in the political arena. The development of “traditional medicine” in Ecuador at the turn of the 21st century , in: Christian Büschges and Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka (eds.): The ethnicization of the political. Identity Politics in Latin America, Asia and the USA . Campus (Historical Political Research), Vol. 12 (2007), pp. 216–247
- Migration and health . Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Sankt Augustin 2009. GoogleBooks
- Anthropology y "crisis de la medicina": el patólogo M. Kuczynski-Godard (1890-1967) y las poblaciones nativas en Asia Central y Perú . DYNAMIS. Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam 29 (2009), pp. 97-121
- with Yasar Bilgin: Medicine and Ethnic-Cultural Diversity - Migration and Other Backgrounds . Deutsches Ärzteblatt 107 (2010), pp. 76–79
Awards
- GEFFRUB Prize of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (2002, award of the dissertation)
- Dr. Herbert Stolzenberg Prize of the Justus Liebig University of Giessen (2006)
Web links
- Literature by and about Michael Knipper in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Knipper, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medical historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |