Peter Matthiessen (medical doctor)

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Peter Matthiessen (born May 25, 1944 in Calw ; † April 30, 2019 ) was Professor of Medical Theory and Complementary Medicine .

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Peter Matthiessen attended the Free Waldorf School in Stuttgart-Uhlandshöhe, studied human medicine in Marburg and the Washington State University St. Louis . He received his doctorate in 1971 on histometric investigations on the developmental dynamics of the post-kidney in rats . He completed further training as a specialist in neurology , psychiatry and psychotherapy in Herdecke , Dortmund and Marburg. In 1983 he co-founded the University of Witten / Herdecke (UW / H). From 1987 to 1993 he was a board member of the Free European Academy of Sciences (FEAW), a predecessor organization of the UW / H. In 1993 he became the first holder of the Gerhard Kienle Endowed Chair for Medical Theory and Complementary Medicine at the UW / H.

1986–1996, Matthiessen carried out the first academic inventory of complementary medicine in Germany on behalf of the German Federal Government ("unconventional methods of combating cancer (UMK)" and from 1994 "unconventional medical directions (UMR)") and was the German delegate of the from 1994 to 1998 ongoing EU project "Unconventional Medicine, COST - B4 - Program". He was one of the founders and later deputy spokesman for the "Dialog Forum Pluralism in Medicine", which was set up in autumn 2000 with the participation of the then President of the German Medical Association , Jörg-Dietrich Hoppe , which "advocates a fruitful exchange between conventional and complementary medicine ". In 2009 he retired and Peter Heusser was his successor on the chair . He was a member of the four-person executive board of the international research advisory board of the medical section of the School of Spiritual Science .

Positions

Peter Matthiessen campaigned for a pluralism of methods and theories in medicine. This was already a founding impulse for the University of Witten / Herdecke. He was of the opinion that individual cases, if they were presented stringently enough, would have generalization potential. In 2018 he wrote the statement Homeopathy and intellectual honesty in defense of homeopathy , where individual case observation is of particular importance . In it he wrote that "the state is constitutionally prohibited from privileging a certain scientific approach or a certain medical paradigm" and at the same time defended such a privilege for homeopathic medicinal products, which are exempt from the proof of an effect for registration. The numerous allegations against homeopathy critics contained in the text were rejected as unfounded by the Münsteraner Kreis and Information Network Homeopathy initiatives .

Publications

  • Malte Bühring (Hrsg.): Natural healing methods and unconventional medical directions. Basics, methods, verification situations . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-662-08913-0 , urn : nbn: de: 1111-20131119221 .
  • Peter F. Matthiessen: Rudolf Steiner's idea of ​​higher education and the University of Witten / Herdecke . In: Peter Heusser, Johannes Weinzirl (ed.): Rudolf Steiner - Its importance for science and life today . Schattauer, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7945-6776-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d CV of Prof. Dr. Peter Matthiessen, University of Witten / Herdecke ( Memento from August 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b c Martin Adler: Textbook Naturopathic Treatment . Ed .: Karin Kraft, Rainer Stange. Georg Thieme Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8304-5333-8 , p. 802 ( google.de ).
  3. ↑ Board of Trustees. Gerhard Kienle Foundation, accessed on May 18, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b Steffen Gerber: Balancing act between hospital and university. In: WAZ. April 26, 2013. Retrieved May 28, 2019 .
  5. ↑ B. Roßlenbroich, J. Teichert, T. Schulze-Pillot, PF Matthiessen: First stages of research in unconventional medicine and state research funding . In: Forschungsende Komplementärmedizin / Research in Complementary Medicine . tape 4 , no. 1 , 1997, ISSN  1661-4119 , pp. 52-57 , doi : 10.1159 / 000210294 .
  6. ↑ Jörg Teichert, Thomas Schulze-Pillot, Peter F. Matthiessen: Unconventional methods of combating cancer . Ten years of research funding. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . tape 91 , no. 48 , December 2, 1994, ISSN  0012-1207 ( aerzteblatt.de [PDF; accessed on May 23, 2015]).
  7. ^ Unconventional medicine. (rtf) Action B4 Fact Sheet. (No longer available online.) COST Association, archived from the original on June 9, 2015 ; accessed on May 23, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Peter Matthiessen: Aspects of interpersonal relationships in medicine. (PDF) In: www.gbm-medizin.de. March 2014, accessed on May 23, 2015 (lecture manuscript of a symposium of the Society for Biophysical Medicine eV).
  9. ↑ Bülent Erdogan-Griese: The North Rhine Medical Association commemorates Professor Jörg-Dietrich Hoppe. North Rhine Medical Association, November 30, 2012, accessed on May 16, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Willich, Stefan N. et al .: Conventional medicine and complementary medicine: Understanding and cooperation must be deepened . In: Bundesärztekammer (Ed.): Deutsches Ärzteblatt . tape 101 , no. 19 , 2004, ISSN  0012-1207 , p. A 1314-1319 ( aerzteblatt.de ).
  11. ↑ Kienle, Gunver Sophia: Evidence-based medicine and medical therapy freedom : From the average to the individual . In: Bundesärztekammer (Ed.): Deutsches Ärzteblatt . tape 105 , no. 25 , 2008, ISSN  0012-1207 , p. A 1381-4 ( aerzteblatt.de ).
  12. ↑ Between practical help for doctors and research. In: WAZ. May 24, 2013, accessed May 16, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Medsektion Goetheanum | Medical work - international research advisory board. Medical Section of the School of Spiritual Science, accessed on May 28, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Interview with Peter Matthiessen from HomoeopathieTV on YouTube
  15. ↑ Peter Matthiessen: Homeopathy and intellectual honesty - an opinion . In: German journal for oncology . No. 50 , 2018, p. 172-175 .
  16. ↑ BfArM - Glossary - Homeopathic Medicines. Retrieved June 29, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Notes on the "Homeopathy Declaration" - Münsteraner district. Accessed June 29, 2020 (German).
  18. ↑ "Homeopathy Declaration 2019" - The INH takes a position. In: Information Network Homeopathy. May 21, 2020, accessed on June 29, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Matthiessen, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and anthroposophist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Calw
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2019