Volker Roelcke

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Volker Roelcke (born November 10, 1958 in Heidelberg ) is a German medical historian and university professor .

Life

Roelcke studied medicine in Heidelberg and Glasgow . He received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg with a thesis in experimental immunology . He then studied ethnology, ancient history and philosophy in Heidelberg and Cambridge from 1984 to 1988 . In 1988 he received a Masters Degree in Philosophy from Cambridge University .

Between 1988 and 1992 he completed further training as a specialist in psychiatry and neurology , after which he was a research assistant at the Medical History Institute of the University of Bonn until 1999 . In 1997 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on illness and cultural criticism. Psychiatric interpretations of society in the bourgeois age in the subject of the history of medicine at the University of Bonn.

From 1998 to 1999 he was then a visiting scientist in the research program The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism of the Presidential Commission of the Max Planck Society at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. From 1999 to 2003 he was Professor at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Science at the University of Lübeck , and since April 2003 he has succeeded Jost Benedum as Professor for the History of Medicine and Managing Director of the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Justus Liebig University Pouring . Roelcke has published numerous papers on the history of medicine and psychiatry under National Socialism as well as in the 19th century and on research ethics in medicine.

From 2009 to 2013, Roelcke was chairman of the commission to review the history of the DGPPN , and in 2011 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Work areas

  • History of psychiatry in the 19th and 20th centuries;
  • the relationship between eugenics and human genetics using the example of psychiatric genetics in Germany, Great Britain and the USA
  • Medicine under National Socialism
  • Epistemology and Ethics of the Human Experiment in the 20th Century
  • Anthropology in Medicine

Publications (selection)

  • together with Heinz Schott (ed.): “Andersartigkeit” and identity in human societies. The Responsibility of the Sciences (= Acta Historica Leopoldina , Volume 73), Stuttgart 2019.
  • From people in medicine. For a culturally competent medicine , Gießen 2017.
  • Richard Siebeck and medicine under National Socialism. Attitude and actions until 1945 and in the post-war period , research report on behalf of the DGPT , Berlin / Gießen 2016.
  • together with Sascha Topp, Étienne Lepicard (Ed.): Silence, Scapegoats, Self-Reflection. The Shadow of Nazi Medical Crimes on Medicine and Bioethics , Göttingen 2014.
  • together with Hans-Walter Schmuhl (Ed.): "Heroic Therapies". German Psychiatry in International Comparison, 1918–1945 , Göttingen 2013.
  • together with Frank Schneider (Ed.): Psychiatrists in National Socialism. Perpetrator biographies (= special issue Der Nervenarzt , Volume 83), 2012.
  • together with Paul Weindling and Louise Westwood (eds.): International Relations in Psychiatry. Britain, America, and Germany to World War II , Rochester / New York 2010.
  • (Ed.): The Medical Faculty of the University of Giessen from its re-establishment in 1957 to the present day , Frankfurt / Main 2007.
  • together with Sigrid Oehler-Klein (Ed.): Politics of the Past in University Medicine after 1945. Institutional and Individual Strategies in Dealing with National Socialism , Stuttgart 2007.
  • together with Horst Carl , Eva-Maria Felschow, Jürgen Reulecke and Corina Sargk (eds.): Panorama 400 Years of the University of Gießen. Actors - Locations - Culture of Remembrance , Frankfurt / Main 2007.
  • together with Giovanni Maio (Ed.): Twentieth Century Ethics of Human Subjects Research. Historical Perspectives on Values, Practices, and Regulations , Stuttgart 2004.
  • together with Eric J. Engstrom (Ed.): Psychiatry in the 19th century. Research on the history of psychiatric institutions, debates and practices in the German-speaking area (= Medical Research , Vol. 13), Basel 2003.
  • together with Hans-Heinrich Raspe (Ed.): Ethics of Planning and Research in Health Care (= special issue of the journal for advanced medical training and quality assurance 97, issue 10), Jena 2003.
  • together with Christian Bonah and Étienne Lepicard (eds.): La médecine expérimentale au tribunal. Implications éthiques de quelques procès médicaux du XXe siècle européen , Paris 2003.
  • together with Andreas Frewer (ed.): The institutionalization of medical historiography. Lines of development from the 19th to the 20th century , Stuttgart 2001.
  • together with Giovanni Maio (Ed.): Medicine and Culture. Medical thinking and acting in a dialogue between the natural sciences and the humanities . Festschrift for Dietrich von Engelhardt , Stuttgart / New York 2001.
  • Disease and cultural criticism. Psychiatric Society Diagnoses in the Bourgeois Age 1790-1914 , Frankfurt / Main 1999, ISBN 978-3-593-36208-3 (habilitation thesis).
  • Investigation of surface sugar structures on normal and leukemic leukocytes using human monoclonal antibodies (cold agglutinins) , Heidelberg 1982, DNB 880889152 (dissertation).
  • together with Linda Orth, Yonka Dutschewska-Kothes, Wolfgang Klenk and Barbara Wolf-Braun (eds.): “Pass op, otherwise kiss de Pelman.” On the history of psychiatry in the Rhineland in the 19th century , Bonn 1994.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maja Bächler: Review of Roelcke, illness and cultural criticism at H-Soz-u-Kult .
  2. ↑ Member entry of Volker Roelcke (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 19, 2016.
  3. ↑ See Roelcke's website .
personal data
SURNAME Roelcke, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg