Research at the Institute
- Sex, gender and reproduction
- History of psychiatry
- Medical humanities and clinical ethics
- Historical epistemology and pharmacy
- History of the Charité
- Medicine under National Socialism
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The research areas
Research at the Institute focuses on modern medical history as well as medical humanities and questions of clinical ethics.
Focal points include the history of social medicine and psychiatry, medicine and gender in historical perspective, medicine under National Socialism, the history of pharmacy, and the history of health care (19th/20th century).
Furthermore, continuous research is conducted on the history of Berlin medicine and the Charité (see Memorial.Charité or Charité after 1945).
Current research projects
Colloquium "Qualitative Research"
The "Qualitative Research" colloquium is an exchange platform for qualitative research students/doctoral candidates to present and discuss methodological, organizational and content-related issues. The colloquium is organized in cooperation with the Qualitative Research Network, which was founded in 2017 and aims to network the methodological and content-related research competencies at the Charité for health-related/medical qualitative research.
The colloquium takes place every 2 weekends on Thursdays from 19:00 online via MS Teams.
Contact person: Amelie Kolandt
Colloquium research and teaching
Program Summer Semester 2024
23.04. Claudia Stein: Title to follow
07.05. Tillmann Taape: Distillation and the body in the early modern period
21.05. Thomas Schlich: A history of modern surgery, 1800-1914
04.06. Amelie Kolandt: Abortion care in Germany: access, challenges and potentials
18.06. Date reserved for teaching meeting - no colloquium
02.07. Jakub Strelec: Medicine, Violent Crime, and Risk in Socialist Czechoslovakia and West Germany (1970s-1980s)
16.07. Alexa Geisthövel: Kidney transplantation in the GDR: How were organs donated, procured and used?
Research focus
Collaboration
The institute has long-standing third-party funded research projects and collaborations, including with the Université Paris Descartes-CERMES3, the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and the Kues Academy for European Intellectual History (Cusanus Hochschule Bernkastel-Kues).