Rebecca Schwoch

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Rebecca Schwoch (* 1963 ) is a German medical historian .

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Schwoch studied history , political science and Hispanic studies at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster and the Free University of Berlin . In 1999 she was with the work of medical professional policies under National Socialism: Julius Hadrich and Karl Haedenkamp as examples at the Free University Berlin PhD .

Since 2003 she has been a research assistant at the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf . In the second decade of the 21st century she was one of the Deputy Heads of the Institute.

Her main interests include in particular medicine under National Socialism and the history of psychiatry in the 19th and 20th centuries. From their projects u. a. Monographs on the history of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Berlin under National Socialism and the fate of Jewish doctors in Berlin. In 2017 , she qualified as a professor at the University of Hamburg with an examination of " medical practitioners ", i. H. Jewish doctors who were allowed to continue treating Jews after their license to practice medicine was withdrawn in 1938.

Publications (selection)

  • Rebecca Schwoch: Medical professional politics in National Socialism: Julius Hadrich and Karl Haedenkamp as examples . Matthiesen, Husum 2001, ISBN 978-3-7868-4095-4 . (Dissertation)
  • Rebecca Schwoch (Ed.): Berlin Jewish Statutory Health Insurance Physicians and their fate under National Socialism. Hentrich & Hentrich Teetz, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-941450-08-0 .
  • Judith Hahn, Rebecca Schwoch: Adaptation and Elimination. The Berlin Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians during National Socialism. Hentrich & Hentrich Teetz, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-941450-09-7 .
  • Rebecca Schwoch: Jewish doctors as medical practitioners: in Berlin between 1938 and 1945. Mabuse-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-86321-322-0 . (Habilitation thesis)
  • Rebecca Schwoch, Kai Sammet (Hrsg.): Research - Mediate - Preserve: The Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine and the Medical History Museum Hamburg. LIT Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-643-14337-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Curriculum vitae in the press kit for the press conference of the German Society for Surgery (DGCH): "The German Society for Surgery between 1933 and 1945: The President's Speech." June 16, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Schwoch, Rebecca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1963