Heiner Fangerau (born 1972) is a German historian of medicine and medical ethicist at Heinrich-Heine-University of Duesseldorf.

Teaching positions

Since 2009 Heiner Fangerau held chairs in the history, philosophy and ethics of medicine at

Ulm University Ulm University (german: Universität Ulm) is a public university in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The university was founded in 1967 and focuses on natural sciences, medicine, engineering sciences, mathematics, economics and computer scie ...

(2009–2014), the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...

(2014/2015) and the Heinrich-Heine-University of Duesseldorf.

Academic works

Fangerau's research focuses the history of the biomedical model in the 19th and 20th century. He investigates historical development as an evolutionary networking process. According to his views ideas develop during a selection process which can be reconstructed by the investigation of connections between actors, artefacts and concepts. His main fields of research include the connection between biology and medicine around 1900, the history of diagnostic thinking during modernity, the history and ethics of modern psychiatry and neurology and the role of medical associations during the National Socialist regime. He (co-)authored and (co-)edited more than 200 research articles and books.. He was president of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (2013–2015) and president of the (German) Society for the History of Science (Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte). Under his presidency the Society for the History of Science united with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik e.V. to form a unified German Association for the History of the Sciences, Medicine and Technology. Heiner Fangerau is co-editor of the Medizinhistorische Journal, the

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences The ''Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that was originally published by the Department of the History of Medicine at Yale University and now is continued by Oxford University Pr ...

and the European Journal of the History of Medicine and Health.

Awards

In 2014 Heiner Fangerau was granted an honorary degree of the

Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy ( ro, Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie „Carol Davila”) or University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, commonly known by the abbreviation UMFCD, is a public health sciences university i ...

in Bucharest. In 2017 he was elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

References

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