Prof. Dr. phil. Heiko Stoff
Research associate
Head of the Contemporary and Scientific History of Medicine Working Group
Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine
OE 5450
Hannover Medical School
Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1
D-30625 Hannover
Phone: +49 511-532-2984
E-mail: stoff.heiko@mh-hannover.de
Prof. Dr. phil. Heiko Stoff has been a research associate at the Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine since October 1, 2014. After studying history and German language and literature at the University of Hamburg, he completed his doctorate there in 2002 at the Department of History with a thesis that was published in 2004 as "Ewige Jugend. Concepts of Rejuvenation from the Late 19th Century to the Third Reich". Subsequently, he was a PostDoc of the Presidential Commission "History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism" of the Max Planck Society and a PostDoc at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. As part of his many years of work as a research assistant at the Department of the History of Natural Sciences with a focus on the history of pharmacy at the TU Braunschweig, his 2012 book entitled "Wirkstoffe. A Scientific History of Hormones, Vitamins and Enzymes, 1920-1970", which was published in 2012. Stoff was a visiting researcher at the Institute for the History of Technology at ETH Zurich and at the University of Vienna. From 2012 to 2014, he was a substitute professor for the history of science and technology at the history seminar at TU Braunschweig. Stoff is a cooperation partner of the "Medical Humanities" research center at the University of Innsbruck and co-editor of the journal "Body Politics. Journal for the History of the Body". He is also a member of the working group "Fates of Jewish Doctors in Hanover".
His research focuses on the history of the life sciences, the body, institutions, sexualities and gender. He enjoys dealing with the historicization of hitherto unquestioned concepts such as youth, performance, stress and active substances.
Further profile: Academia