MD Susanne Doetz
researcher staffCharité - University Medicine Berlin
Thielallee 71
14195 Berlin
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Susanne Doetz has been working as a research associate at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine at Charité since 2021 and was already active there from 2007-2016 in research and teaching as well as a visiting scholar. She is currently a member of the DFG research group "Normal#Verrückt ̶ Zeitgeschichte einer erodierenden Differenz" ("Normal#Crazy - Contemporary History of an Eroding Difference") (sub-project: „Ver-rückte Rationalitäten. Medientechniken und Protestbewegungen, 1967-1991“ ("Crazy Rationalities. Media Techniques and Protest Movements, 1967-1991")).
Susanne Doetz is a member of the AG Mittelbau of the Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, der Medizin und der Technik.
Current project
DFG-Project: „Normal#Verrückt – Zeitgeschichte einer erodierenden Differenz" ("Normal#Crazy - Contemporary History of an Eroding Difference").
SP 5 - „Verrückte Rationalitäten: Medientechniken und Protestbewegungen, 1967-1991“ ("Crazy Rationalities: Media Techniques and Protest Movements, 1967-1991")
Research focus
- Medicine under National Socialism
- History of human genetics - especially human genetic counseling (project description) - and eugenics in the 20th century
- History of medicine "from below
Selected publications
Doetz, Susanne (2021) Die Humangenetische Beratung in der DDR. In: medizinische genetik 33, S. 77-84.
Doetz, Susanne und Christoph Kopke unter der Mitarbeit von Judith Hahn (2018) „und dürfen das Krankenhaus nicht mehr betreten“. Der Ausschluss jüdischer und politisch unerwünschter Ärzte und Ärztinnen aus dem Berliner Städtischen Gesundheitswesen 1933-1945. Berlin: Hentrich & Hentrich (Herbert-Lewin-Forschungspreis 2019).
Doetz, Susanne (2017): “The Happiness of the Individual Is of Primary Importance”. Genetic Counselling in the GDR. In: Heike Petermann, Peter Harper, Susanne Doetz (Hrsg.): History of Human Genetics. Aspects of Its Development and Global Perspectives. Cham: Springer International Publishing, S. 393-419.
Doetz, Susanne (2011): Alltag und Praxis der Zwangssterilisation. Die Berliner Universitätsfrauenklinik unter Walter Stoeckel 1942-1944. Berlin-Brandenburg: bebra.
Vita MD Susanne Doetz
Susanne Doetz studied human medicine at the Charité in Berlin. In 2010 she received her doctorate with the thesis „Alltag und Praxis der Zwangssterilisation. Die Berliner Universitäts-Frauenklinik unter Walter Stoeckel, 1942-1944“ She was a researcher from 2007-2019. She worked as a research associate/guest researcher at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin in the research projects „Verfolgte Ärztinnen und Ärzte des Berliner öffentlichen Gesundheitswesens, 1933-1945“ ("Persecuted Physicians in the Berlin Public Health System, 1933-1945") (Historical Commission on Berlin) and „Die Etablierung humangenetischer Beratungsstellen in der DDR im Spannungsfeld zwischen Wissenschaft, Politik und Öffentlichkeit ("The Establishment of Human Genetic Counseling Centers in the GDR in the Field of Tension between Science, Politics and the Public") (DFG, own position). In addition, she worked from 2008-2009 as a ward physician in the Department of Psychosomatics at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, and as a resident physician in an internal medicine family practice in Berlin-Reinickendorf (Jan-Dec 2018). From 2019-2021, she was a research associate at the Institute for History, Ethics and Theory of Medicine at the Medical Faculty of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.
