PD Dr. Florian Steger
Alfried Krupp Junior Fellow
(April - September 2008)
Born 1974 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Studied Medicine, Classics and History at the Universities of Würzburg and Munich LMU)
‘Privatdozent’ [senior academic assistant] for History of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg.
New Beginnings and Reforms. Studies in the History of Psychiatry after 1945
Research on the history of Psychiatry since 1945 has concentrated on the reforms which have changed the image of Psychiatry as an institution. The public view of the discipline and how it has itself been altered by this perception have been insufficiently studied so far. The analysis of the subject as perceived by itself and by others, that is on the one hand the practitioners and beneficiaries and on the other hand the perception by the public as important aspects of the history of psychiatry since 1945, can be seen as a gap in research. Individual experience is particularly important for psychiatry, which focuses on mental and behavioural deviations from a social ‘norm’; thus more attention needs to be paid to its anthropological dimension. The specific analysis will make use of the historical records of the Greifswald Psychiatric Clinic (these exist from the 1840s on), and, not least, a comparative view of the two dictatorships (‘National Socialism’ and the GDR) will be worthwhile.
(April - September 2008)
Born 1974 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Studied Medicine, Classics and History at the Universities of Würzburg and Munich LMU)
‘Privatdozent’ [senior academic assistant] for History of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg.
New Beginnings and Reforms. Studies in the History of Psychiatry after 1945
Research on the history of Psychiatry since 1945 has concentrated on the reforms which have changed the image of Psychiatry as an institution. The public view of the discipline and how it has itself been altered by this perception have been insufficiently studied so far. The analysis of the subject as perceived by itself and by others, that is on the one hand the practitioners and beneficiaries and on the other hand the perception by the public as important aspects of the history of psychiatry since 1945, can be seen as a gap in research. Individual experience is particularly important for psychiatry, which focuses on mental and behavioural deviations from a social ‘norm’; thus more attention needs to be paid to its anthropological dimension. The specific analysis will make use of the historical records of the Greifswald Psychiatric Clinic (these exist from the 1840s on), and, not least, a comparative view of the two dictatorships (‘National Socialism’ and the GDR) will be worthwhile.
13/02/12
Features and Functions of Human gamma/delta T-Cells
Vortragsreihe „Molekulare Mechanismen elementarer Lebensprozesse“
17/02/12
Fachtagung "Auswirkungen des demografischen Wandels auf die Grundbedürfnissicherung der Bevölkerung in Vorpommern unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der kinder- und jugendmedizinischen Versorgung im Landkreis Vorpommern-Greifswald"
Zu Gast im Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg
