PD Dr. phil. Wiebke Lisner
Research associate
Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine
OE 5450
Hannover Medical School
Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1
D-30625 Hannover
Phone: +49 511-532-3506
E-mail: lisner.wiebke@mh-hannover.de
PD Dr. Wiebke Lisner earned her Ph.D. in history from Leibniz University Hannover, where she studied history, political science and sociology. Her dissertation was published in 2006 by Campus Verlag under the title: “Hüterinnen der Nation”? Hebammen im Nationalsozialismus [Guardians of the Nation? Midwives under National Socialism] and it won the Otto Werth Prize from the Natural Science and Historical Association for the State of Lippe in 2007. From 2005 to 2009, Wiebke Lisner worked on the DFG-funded project “Politics in British and German Medical Journals from the Interwar Period to the 1950s” at the Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine at Hannover Medical School. She then worked as coordinator of the Midwifery B.Sc. study programme at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. From 2014 to 2018, Lisner worked on the DFG-funded research project: Midwives in the "’Biopolitical Laboratory Space’ of the ‘Reichsgau Wartheland’ - Obstetrics between Privacy and State Access” (further information on the project). Since April 2018, Wiebke Lisner has been a staff member at the Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine at Hannover Medical School, conducting the DFG-funded research project “Concretizing the Hypothetical. Pandemic Preparedness since the 1990s - Historical Conditions of Corona Management (PreCoM)” (2021-2024). In 2024, she completed her habilitation in the history of medicine at Hannover Medical School.
PD Dr. Wiebke Lisner is the second chairwoman of the Association of Medical History, member of the Commission for the History of Germans in Poland (cash auditor), a member of the Association of Historians in Germany (VHD), a member of the German Association of Universities (DHV), a member of the Schaumburg-Lippe Landscape History Working Group, and a member of the Spatial Planning and Management for Pandemic-Resilient Cities Working Group of the Leibniz Lab for Pandemic Preparedness.