Completed dissertations (2004-2019)

Institute of History, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine

Here you will find a list of the dissertations that were written at the Institute of History, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine from 2004-2021.

2021

• Anna-Maria Etmann (Dr. med. dent.): Examination of traumatized war invalids born between 1911 and 1928 who were treated in Göttingen State Hospital between 1945 and 1947
  

2020

• Alexandra Maria-Magdalena Blum (Dr. med.): Ethical analysis of public health measures for the prevention of infectious diseases. Exemplified by measles and tetanus.
• Maximilian Isa (Dr. med. dent.): The case of Dr. Axel Dohrn - Voluntary sterilization in the post-war period in the shadow of the law on the prevention of hereditary diseases.
• Nicole Spannhof (Dr. med.): Tuberculosis control in the early Federal Republic from the perspective of the Public Health Service
• Nadja Struß (Dr. med.): ADHD - Genealogy of disorder concepts and the establishment of pharmacotherapy in Germany: a historical discourse analysis
• Katharina Urfa (Dr. med.): Between fertility and forced sterilization : observations on research on women to strengthen the national body during National Socialism, exemplified by the publications of the physicians Stieve, Mayer and Seitz in the Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift and Münchner Medizinische Wochenschrift

2019

• Daniela Buchleva (Dr. med. dent.): Life and work with special consideration of pediatric and adolescent dentistry
• Beate Greve (Dr. med.): Prof. Dr. med. Rudolf Degkwitz *19.1.1889 - †21.5.1973. His scientific and political life from the German Empire to democracy
• Matthias Kujawa (Dr. med.): Follow-up study on the effects of Advance Care Planning. A qualitative study on the perspective of patients with advanced heart failure

2018

• Enno Mammen (Dr. med.): The medical professional press as a medium of opinion formation (1945-1970): A comparison of socio-political discourses in Niedersächsisches Ärzteblatt and Ärztliche Mitteilungen/Deutsches Ärzteblatt
• Alina Schröder (Dr. med. dent.): The development of nuclear medicine at Hannover Medical School from its foundation in 1965 to 1995

2017

• Friedemann Dominik Seitzer (Dr. med.): The full spectrum of ethical issues in the care of patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: a systematic qualitative review
• Werdecker, Lena (Dr. PH): Advance care planning in advanced heart failure: qualitative analyses of the views of those affected in an exploratory study

2016

• Agena, Frauke (Dr. med.): The first female psychiatrists during the National Socialist era and in the early Federal Republic of Germany
• Kahrass, Hannes (Dr. PH): Dealing with ethical-normative information in the context of evidence-based health care - systematic reviews and status quo analyses using the example of clinical guidelines and editorial guidelines

2014

• Ansari, Peter (Dr. rer. biol. hum.): The therapeutic history of depression and the introduction of anti-depressive drug therapy in the FRG in the period 1945-1970.
• Fatemeh Gholami-Kordkheili (Dr. med. dent.): The influence of social networks on medical professional ethics. A systematic qualitative review of the challenges and opportunities
• Herlitzius, Sabine (Dr. med.): Marthe Vogt. A life for science 1903-2003.

2013

• Ehlert, Janina (Dr. med.): Treatment and ethics in palliative care units. A qualitative study on the perspective of affected patients.

2012

• Arndt, Maja (Dr. med.) and Haase, Kristin (Dr. med.): Assessment of the effect of Ayurvedic treatment using the example of the symptoms of chikungunya fever in India. Brief outline of the history of Ayurveda and Chikungunya. Outlook on the spread of Ayurveda in Germany and India.
• Hadjiafxenti, Charitini (Dr. med.): Interview study on psychosocial and ethical aspects of heterozygote screening using the example of thalassemia in Cyprus.
• Kintrup, Claudia (Dr. med.): Discourse on schizophrenia and mental illness in the "Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift" and the journal "Fortschritte der Neurologie, Psychiatrie und ihrer Grenzgebiete" in the Weimar Republic and under National Socialism.
• Oppermann, Bernd (Dr. med. dent.): The principle of informed consent in dentistry.
• Stein, Charlotte (Dr. med.): How are women portrayed in the public debate on assisted reproduction technologies? An analysis of the years 1978 to 2010 in Germany using selected magazines and newspapers.

2011

• Neumeister, Romy (Dr. med.): Discourse on schizophrenia in the "Münchner Medizinische Wochenschrift" and the "Medizinische Welt" in the Weimar Republic and under National Socialism.

2010

• Hafemann, Hannelore (Dr. med.): Kurt Nuck (1892-1970) and the development of the administrative office in supervisory district VII Hanover into the Lower Saxony State Institute for Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene.
• Opitz, Gitta (Dr. med.): Public health care in Wolfenbüttel 1933-1945.
• Wottrich, Sabine (Dr. med. dent.): Ethics and Legal in the Study of Dentistry and Professional Practice.

2009

• Lieb, Kathrin (Dr. med.): Cerebral commissurotomies. A contribution to their medical-psychological, popular scientific and cultural-historical classification.
• Peter, Jessica Annabel (Dr. med.): On the history of the first female urologists in Germany.
• Wolters, Christine (Dr. rer. biol. hum.): Tuberculosis and human experimentation under National Socialism. The network behind the tuberculosis experiments in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

2008

• Blank, Martin (Dr. med.): Cholesterol as a cardiovascular risk factor. Medical knowledge and implementation in dietary recommendations between 1945 and 1980.
• Krümpelmann, Kerstin (Dr. med. dent.): Georg-Wilhelm Rodewald (1921-1991). Biography of a thoracic, cardiac and vascular surgeon.

2007

• Bruns, Florian (Dr. med.): Medicine and Ethics in National Socialism - Development and Protagonists in Berlin 1939-1945.
• Kurz, Christina (Dr. med. dent.): The establishment of dentistry at Hannover Medical School against the background of the problem of young dentists.
• Sievers, Edda Kathrin Birthe (Dr. med.): The Life Donation Commission in Germany - structure, working methods and ethical discourses.

2006

• Lux, Richard (Dr. med.): Medical Classification Systems: History, Interactions and Perspectives and their Use in Orthopaedics and Traumatology.
• Stüker, Imke (Dr. med.): Frankincense - an old remedy in a new guise.
• Tzolov, Madlena (Dr. med.): Hospice Study Hanover. A study on medical ethics, grief and end-of-life care.

2005

• Mattulat, Martin (Dr. med.): Medical ethics in historical perspective. On the transformation of medical morality in the work of Georg Benno Gruber (1884-1977).
• Möller, Mareike Christina Elisabeth (Dr. med.): Ethics education in evaluation. Theory, development and application of a teaching goal-oriented questionnaire on medical ethics.
• Oerding, Christina (Dr. med. dent.): The integration of implantology into the treatment concept of dentistry in Germany - A review from 1970 to the present.
• Riechmann, Joachim (Dr. med.): The influence of the discovery of X-rays on diagnostics and therapy in urology. - The first era from the beginnings to retrograde urinary tract imaging.
• Tjindra, Claudia (Dr. med. dent.): Josef Koncz (1916-1988) his life and work.
• Voß, Angelika (Dr. rer. biol. hum.): Between the desire to have children and addiction? A contribution to the debate on artificial insemination in Germany between 1946 and 1962.

2004

• Ay, Aaysun (Dr. med.): Sterility among Turkish women in Germany.
• Buzmann, Carsten (Dr. med.): The pathologist Ernst Neumann and his research in the field of degeneration and regeneration of peripheral nerves after continuity separation.
• Hilmer, Marion (Dr. med.): Max Kappis (1881-1938) - The life and work of a surgeon with special reference to his time in Hanover.
• Pieles, Guido (Dr. med.): Goethe's idea of metamorphosis in the conception of disease in early Romantic medicine.
• Winzer, Imke (Dr. med.): The Hanoverian physician Johann Ernst Wichmann (1740-1802) - his work with special consideration of dermatological topics.