Contemporary history of medicine in the 20th century

The topic of health policy and health care in the 20th century is an under-researched field of investigation that suggests diachronic and comparative synchronic studies of developments in East and West Germany. In particular, it raises the question of guiding ideas and the structural developments in the political systems of postwar Germany. The (dis)continuities since the Weimar Republic and National Socialism play an essential role.

Questions of the contemporary history of medicine

• Guiding ideas of health care since the Empire
• National Socialist health and social policy
• Reorganization of health care for the population in West and East Germany after 1945
• Reorganization of health policy decision-makers (statutory health insurance, public health service, professional medical policy)
• Health policy concepts in the GDR
• Structures and concepts of health care in East and West Germany 1945-1955 (examples)
• Health and population policy in the Weimar Republic and under National Socialism
• The Rockefeller Foundation in Postwar Germany: Impulses for a Reorganization of Public Health and Medical Education
• Alternative Concepts in the Medicine of the FRG (Jahrbuch Kritische Medizin) Population Policy under National Socialism and in the FRG
• Racial Hygiene and Spatial Planning in National Socialism

Emergence and development of social hygiene/medicine and public health

• 100 years of social medicine, social hygiene and public health (online version of a CD-Rom)
• "Gesundheitsschutz für alle" und die Ausgrenzung von Minderheiten. Historische Beiträge zur Aushöhung eines gesundheitspolitischen Anspruchs. Berlin 2006.
• Sozialmedizin, Sozialhygiene und Public Health. Konzepte und Visionen zum Verhältnis von Medizin und Gesellschaft in historischer Perspektive. Berlin 2002 (1. unv. Nachdruck 2004). Link zu Berichte_5_SozialmedizinKonzepte_2002.pdf

Development of Science and Higher Education Policy in the Weimar Republic, under National Socialism, in the Four Occupation Zones, and in the Federal Republic and the GDR

Research projects

• Wissenschaftlicher Anspruch und staatliches Interesse: Die Hochschulmedizin an der Charité im Wechsel staatlicher Systeme 1933 und 1945 (Scientific aspiration and state interest: University Medicine at the Charité in the Change of State Systems in 1933 and 1945.)
• Biographien, Karrieren und Wissenschaftspolitik: Die Charité 1930-1950 (Biographies, Careers and Scientific Policy: The Charité 1930-1950)
• Die Charité im Dritten Reich (The Charité in the Third Reich)
• GeDenkort.Charité - verfolgte Mitarbeiter 1933-45 (GeDenkort.Charité - persecuted employees 1933-45)
• Akzeptanz und Widerstand: Hochschul- und gesundheitspolitische Vorgaben der SED und des DDR-Ministerrats und ihre Umsetzung Beispiel Gründung des Studiengangs Militärmedizin und  der Studentenstreik in Greifswald 1955 (Volltext) (Acceptance and Resistance: University and Health Policy Guidelines of the SED and the GDR Council of Ministers and Their Implementation Example: Founding of the Military Medicine Program and the Student Strike in Greifswald 1955 (full text))