Research

Contemporary and Scientific History of Medicine Working Group

Ongoing projects:

• "Bringing Gender into Science - and Back!" Historical and ethnographic perspectives on biological gender development research
  Sub-project S06 of the SFB 1665 located at the University of Lübeck: Sexdiversity - Determinants, meanings and implications of gender diversity in socio-cultural, medical and biological contexts.
  Sub-project leaders: Prof. Dr. Heiko Stoff (MHH) and Dr. Birgit Stammberger (University of Lübeck)
  Researcher of the history of science section: Dr. Xenia Steinbach (MHH)
• Concretization of the hypothetical. Pandemic preparedness since the 1990s - historical conditions of corona management (PreCoM)
  Project management: Prof. Dr. Heiko Stoff / Dr. Wiebke Lisner
  In cooperation with: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Rauh / Dr. Jonathan Voges, Historical Seminar of Leibniz Universität Hannover and in cooperation with the research center "Center for Inclusive Citizenship" (CINC)
  Funding: DFG

Completed projects:

• Processing and reporting of medical-historical material on the German Aviation Research Institute (DVL) during the National Socialist era, in particular: Processing the sources on Siegfried Ruff's role in the negative pressure experiments at Dachau concentration camp in 1942 (commissioned by the DLR).
  Period: March 1, 2022 to November 30, 2022
  Project leader: Prof. Dr. Heiko Stoff
  Researchers: Dr. Karsten Wilke (March 1 to June 30, 2022) and Dr. Pascal Eitler (July 1, 2022 to November 30, 2022)
• Personnel continuities in psychiatry in Lower Saxony after 1945
  Staff: Beyer, Christof (Dr. phil.)
  Funding: Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Equality
• Disability as a social challenge. Life courses and employment biographies of limb amputees of the Second World War in the early Federal Republic
  Project management: Wolters, Christine (Dr. rer. biol. hum., MA)
  Funding: Pro*Niedersachsen / Nds. Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur
• Collaborative project: Things and Sexuality. Production and consumption in the 20th and 21st centuries. Sub-project: Optimization objects: The constitution of a desire-oriented sexual economy in the second half of the 20th century
  Project management: Prof. Dr. phil. Heiko Stoff
  Funding: BMBF
• Bioethics and the legacy of the Holocaust
  Project management: Prof. Dr. phil. Heiko Stoff
  Funding: DLR Project Management Agency / BMBF
• Post-war modernism and medical reform. The project of founding medical academies in West Germany, 1950-1970
  Project leader: Prof. Dr. phil. Heiko Stoff
  Funding: (from 1.7.2018) German Research Foundation
• Hunger Strike at the Celle Prison and Coma Solution at the MHH (1985)
  Project leader: Prof. Dr. phil. Heiko Stoff
  Funding for a book publication: Society of Friends of the MHH
• On the history of medical informatics in West Germany
  Project leader: Gausemeier, Bernd (Dr.)
  Funding: Society of Friends of the MHH
• Obstetrics between "nation-building", biopolitics and violence. Polish, Jewish and German midwives in western Poland 1918 to 1945
  Project leader: Lisner, Wiebke (Dr.)