Research at the institute
- History of the Charité
- Social medicine and psychiatry
- Historical epistemology and pharmacy
- Medicine and gender
- Medicine under National Socialism
- Medical humanities and clinical ethics
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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
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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).