Current publications

Contemporary and Scientific History of Medicine Working Group

June 2025

• Lisner W (2025): Midwives in Wartheland. Obstetrics between privacy and racial politics, 1939-1945, (Das Private im Nationalsozialismus, vol. 6), Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag

May 2025

• Lisner W, Voges J (2025): Preparing for Future Global Crises: Germany and the World Health Organization's Scenarios of Pandemic Planning Since the 1990s. European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health. https://doi.org/10.1163/26667711-20241143

March 2025

• Lisner W (2025): Pandemic Preparedness in Germany. A New Citizenship Project since the 1990s? In: Kenner S, Kleinschmidt M, Lange D, Reichert F, Schröder C (eds.): Inclusive Citizenship: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Citizenship and Political Education. Wiesbaden: Springer, 287-302.

November 2024

• Lisner W (2024): "Halted Blood" or Pregnancy? On the Liminal Perception of Life and Death between Biopolitics and Social Practice in Occupied Western Poland, 1939-1945, in: Michael Zok/Florian Greiner (eds.): Circle of Life. Birth, Dying and the Liminality of Life in Modern Times, (Thanatologische Studien, 4), Baden-Baden: Rombach Wissenschaft, 2024, pp. 35-58, https://doi.org/10.5771/9783988580641.

February 2024

• Fabric H (2024): The Market of Desire. On the Emergence of a Consensual-Consumerist Morality in the 20th Century. In: Kühl R, Link D, Heiberger L (eds.): Sexualities and Gender. Historical perspectives in transition. Bielefeld: transcript, 59-82.

January 2024

• Lisner W (2024): "[A]s a German midwife in the liberated East" - Obstetrics and the Reichshebammengesetz as instruments of the "Volkstumskampf" in Warthegau 1939-1945? In: Pierre Pfütsch (ed.): The Role of Nursing in the Nazi Era. New perspectives, research and sources. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 309-340.

December 2023

• Lisner W (2023): Review of "Justyna Aniceta Turkowska: Der kranke Rand des Reiches, Sozialhygiene und nationale Räume in der Provinz Posen um 1900". Nordost-Archiv 32 (2023) - Media and People. Research on German-Russian entanglements in the 20th century, 124-127

November 2023

• Substance H (2023): The endocrine formula. Psychoanalysis and sex hormone research in the first half of the 20th century. In: Lucifer-Amor Journal on the History of Psychoanalysis. Issue 72: Sexology and Psychoanalysis: Persons & Organizations, Theory & Practice, 45-66.

September 2023

• Substance H (2023): From action to substance to action. On the conceptual history of active agents in the 20th century. In: Haumann S, Roelevink E, Thorade N, Zumbrägel C: Perspectives on the History of Substance: Materiality, Practices, Knowledge. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 115-142. doi:10.1515/9783839468944

August 2023

• Hornig N, Stammberger B, Stoff S, Rehmann-Sutter C (2023): The past and future of "sex genes". Medical Genetics 35(3): 153-161. doi: 10.1515/medgen-2023-2040

July 2023

• Stoff H (2023): The hormonal economy of sexual bodies. Sexual consumption and consensus in the 20th century. In: Heim T, Schrage D (eds.): Sexual-technical consumer objects and metamorphoses of modern sexualities: practices, forms of relationships, identities, social relations. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien, 293-315.

April 2023

• Heiko Stoff: Magnus Hirschfeld and the legacy of sexology. In: Hessisches Ärzteblatt 5/2023, 310-311.

February 2023

• Christine Wolters, Karsten Wilke: The integration of war-disabled persons in Lower Saxony 1945-1970. Legal regulations, organization and practice of care using the example of the disabled. In: Sabine Schleiermacher, Noyan Dinçkal (eds.): War-damaged persons and European post-war societies in the 20th century. Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2023, 123-145

November 2022

• Bernd Gausemeier: "From the genealogical table to total genealogy. 'Wissenschaftliche Genealogie' als biologisch-soziales Hybridfeld um 1900', in: Michael Hecht / Elisabeth Timm (eds.), Genealogie in der Moderne. Actors - Practices - Perspectives, Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 35-64. doi: 10.1515/9783110718034-004

September 2022

• Heiko Stoff: "Prevention and compliance. Zur Geschichte der Selbstverantwortung in der Medizin", in: Yearbook 2021 of the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft. Brunswick: Cuvillier, 2022, pp. 212-232. Online at: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:084-2022081914308

June 2022

• Wiebke Lisner/Johannes Hürter/Cornelia Rauh/Lu Seegers (eds.): Familientrennungen im nationalsozialistischen Krieg: Erfahrungen und Praktiken in Deutschland und im besetzten Europa 1939-1945 (Das Private im Nationalsozialismus, vol. 5), Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2022.

November 2021

• Lisner W (2021) "The death mask of Prince Hermann. Child mortality in the 19th century", in: Seegers et al.: Geschichte Schaumburgs in 30 Objekten. Wallstein, 2021

September 2021

• Elżbieta Kassner/Wiebke Lisner: Between state requirements and social needs. Professional careers of midwives and obstetrics in Poland 1918-1945. In: Matthias Barelkowski/ Christoph Schutte (eds.): New state, new identity? German-Polish-Jewish Biographies in Poland after 1918, (Polono-Germanica, 12), Osnabrück: Fibre Verlag, 2021, pp. 121-156.
• Stoff H (2021) 'A Brief History of Puberty', in: Florian Mildenberger (ed.), Transatlantic Emancipations. Friendship gift for James Steakley. Hamburg: Männerschwarm, 2021, pp. 181-210.
• Stoff H (2021) "Hirschfeld for all! On the reception history of a modern activist and scientist", in: James Steakley (ed.), Magnus Hirschfeld. An index of writings. Hamburg: Männerschwarm, 2021, pp. 195-249.

July 2021

• Struß, Nadja/Stoff, Heiko: "ADHS - Störungskonzepte und Anfänge der Pharmakotherapie in Bundesrepublik und DDR", in: Zeitschrift für Kinder-und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie 49 (2021) 4, pp. 284-294.
• Schicktanz, Silke/Stoff, Heiko: "The Legacy of the Holocaust in Bioethics", in: Bioethics 35 (2021) 6, 497-498
• Gausemeier, Bernd: "From laboratory automaton to computerized laboratory factory. Clinical chemistry as a pioneer of computerized medicine in the 1950s to 1970s", in: Julia Inthorn, Rudolf Seising (eds.); Digitale Patien-tenversorgung. On the Computerization of Diagnostics, Therapy and Nursing. Transcript.

May 2021

• Stoff H (2021) "Consensual-consumerist sexuality. Capitalism, sex hormones and 'new morality' in the 20th century", in: kulturrevolution 80 (May 2021), pp. 33-39

April 2021

• Wilke K, Schmuhl HW, Wagner S, Winkler U (eds.): "Es sollte doch alles besser werden". The Rummelsberger Diakonie's care for the disabled 1945-1995. Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2021. 464 p.

March 2021

• Gausemeier B: "Race" and "hereditary health" in the Nazi state. In: Impu!se for Health Promotion, Issue No. 110, "Racism in Health Care"

January 2021

• Heiko Stoff, "Poison and Cancer: The Politics of Food Carcinogens in 1950s West Germany", in: Angela N. H. Creager and Jean-Paul Gaudillière (eds.): Risk on the Table: Food Production, Health, and the Environment. New York: Berghahn, 2021, pp. 79-104.

December 2020

• Geiger, Karin, and Heiko Stoff. "Prolonging life in the history of medicine." Héctor Wittwer, Daniel Schäfer and Andreas Frewer (eds.): Handbuch Sterben und Tod. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2020. 191-196.

October 2020

• Stoff, Heiko: "Chemically preserved citrus fruits. Risikokalkulationen in den 1950er Jahren", in: Swen Steinberg/Frank Jacob (eds.), Semmeln aus Sägemehl. Food scandals and knowledge systems. Marburg: Büchner-Verlag, 2020, pp. 181-210.

September 2020

• Stoff, Heiko: The coma method. Free will, self-responsibility and the beginning of the end of the Red Army Faction in the winter of 1984/85. Berlin: Kadmos, 2020.

August 2020

• Material H: "'Claude Bernard qui genuit Cannon qui genuit Rosenblueth apud Wiener'. Teleologien der Biokybernetik", in: Beate Ochsner/Sybilla Nikolow/Robert Stock (eds.), Affizierungs- und Teilhabeprozesse zwischen Organismen und Maschinen. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2020, pp. 3-23.

July 2020

• Stoff H: "The Material is the Medium: On the History of Selenium", in: GAIA. Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society 29 (2020) 2, p. 123.

June 2020

• Lisner, Wiebke: "Midwifery under German Occupation - in the Litzmannstadt Ghetto and in annexed Western Poland, 1939-1945." In: NASHIM. A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues, 36 (2020), pp. 86-116.

February 2020

• Material H: "Sexuality", in: Martina Heßler/Kevin Liggieri (eds.), Technikanthropologie. Handbook for Science and Studies. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2020, pp. 436-441

January 2020

• Gausemeier B (2020) Central Periphery. Biological and medical research in Berlin-Buch, 1930-1989. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. 535 pages.

September 2019

• Lisner W (2019)"Nurses in the National Socialist concentration camp system. Self-conception, professional ethos and service to patients in the prisoner ward and SS hospital", H-Soz-Kult (book review)

August 2019

• Stoff, H.; Travis, A. S.: "Discovering Chemical Carcinogenesis: The Case of Aromatic Amines", in: Ernst Homburg, Elisabeth Vaupel (eds.),"Hazardous Chemicals: Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000". Berghahn Books.

July 2019

• Gausemeier B (2019)"Von konditionierten Ratten und gestressten Werktätigen", in: NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin, Sept. 2019
• Lisner W (2019)"A birth is nothing out of the Ordinary here...". In: Harvey, E / Hürter, J / Umbach, M / Wirsching, A (eds.), Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany, Cambridge University Press: 304-330
• Wilke K (2019) 'The Apology of the German Wehrmacht on the Internet. The digital representation of "counter-narratives" and right-wing extremist propaganda', in: '"So war der deutsche Landser...". The popular image of the Wehrmacht", vol. 101 of the series "Krieg in der Geschichte", J. Westemeier (ed.), Schöningh 2019
• Lohff B (2019)"Die Josephs-Akademie im Wiener Josephinum: Die medizinisch-chirurgische Militärakademie im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft und Politik 1785-1874". Vienna: Böhlau

June 2019

• Eitler P, Prestel JB (2019) "Anthropologists: Feelings in the Field". In: Gammerl et al (eds.) Encounters with Emotions. Negotiating Cultural Differences since Early Modernity. New York: Berghahn Books. S. 85-109.

February 2019

• Walch S, Stoff H (2019) "Sexuahormone in the history of science". In: Gender Glossary [https://gender-glossar.de]
• Eitler P (2019) "Body therapies or the 'somaboom' after 1968". In: Geisthövel A, Hitzer B (eds.): In search of a different medicine. Psychosomatics in the 20th century. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
• Stoff H (2019) "Endocrine psychosomatics or the attempt to combine hormone and psychotherapy". In: Geisthövel A, Hitzer B (eds.): In search of a different medicine. Psychosomatics in the 20th century. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.

September 2018

• Fabric H (2018) Materiality. In: Gottschalk A, Kersten S, Krämer F (eds.): Doing Space while Doing Gender. Interconnections of space and gender in research and politics. Bielefeld 2018, pp. 77-92.

May 2018

• Kuhtz-Buschbeck JP, Drake-Holland A, Noble MIM, Lohff B, Schaefer J (2018): Rediscovery of Otto Frank's contribution to science. In: Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, Vol. 119. p. 69-103

March 2018

• Fabric H (2018): Performance, success, happiness and stress. On the body history of liberal capitalism in the 20th century. In: Kleiner S, Suter R (eds.) Stress und Unbehagen: Glücks- und Erfolgspathologien in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Berlin 2018

January 2018

• Lisner W (2018): Obstetrics in the context of community and racial politics. Midwives as female experts in the "Reichsgau Wartheland" 1939-1945. In: Schmiechen-Ackermann D, Buchholz M, Roitsch B, Schröder C (eds): The place of the "national community" in German social history. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2018, pp. 311-326.

November 2017

• Stoff H (2017): Identity, Precariousness, and Poison: A Brief and Political Outlook. In: Klippel H, Wahrig B, Zechner A (eds.): Poison and Poisoning in Science, Fiction and Cinema Precarious Identities. Berlin/Heidelberg, 2017. p. 239-249
• Stoff H (2017): The toxic overall situation. The fear of mutagenic and teratogenic substances in the 1950s. In: Großbölting T, Lenhard-Schramm N (eds.): Contergan. Background and consequences of a drug scandal. Göttingen, 2017, pp. 45-70

October 2017

• Stoff H (2017): Wolfgang Pauli and Colloid Science at the Biologische Versuchsanstalt in Vienna. In: Müller GB (ed.): Vivarium. Experimental, Qualitative, and Theoretical Biology at Vienna's Biologische Versuchsanstalt. Cambridge/Mass., 2017. p. 189-208