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

(2009–2014), the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne () is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in 1388. It closed in 1798 before being re-established in 1919. It is now one of the largest universities in Germany with around 45,187 students. The Universit ...

(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 A journal, from the Old French ''journal'' (meaning "daily"), may refer to: *Bullet journal, a method of personal organization *Diary, a record of personal secretive thoughts and as open book to personal therapy or used to feel connected to onesel ...

and the

European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health Brill Academic Publishers () is a Dutch international academic publisher of books, academic journals, and databases founded in 1683, making it one of the oldest publishing houses in the Netherlands. Founded in the South Holland city of Leiden, ...

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 () or University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, commonly known by the abbreviation UMFCD, is a public health sciences university in Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and larges ...

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

References

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