Dr Sebastian Pranghofer, M.A. (Hamburg), PhD (Durham)

Research Interests

Current Research Project

• Reproductive Knowledge and the Popular Medical Enlightenment in Germany, c1750-1875
• History of Medical Confidentiality
• Visualisations of the Human Body in Anatomical Discourses in Early Modern Europe (PhD)

• Sex, Ethics and Psychology: The Networks and Cultural Context of Albert Moll (1862-1939)

Curriculum vitae

Sebastian Pranghofer, born in Passau, Germany.
1993-95 I studied History and English Literature at Passau University; 1996-2003 I studied Social and Economic History and Art History at the University of Hamburg, where I also was administrator at the Institute for Social and Economic History; since 2004 I am research associate at the Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease and tutor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Durham. In 2011 I completed my PhD on 'Visual Representation and the Human Body in Early Modern Anatomy'.

Publications

• (with A.-H. Maehle), ‘Medical confidentiality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: an Anglo-German comparison’, Medizinhistorisches Journal, 45 (2010), 189-221.
• ‘“It could be seen more clearly in Unreasonable Animals than in Humans”: the representation of the rete mirabile in early modern anatomy’, Medical History, 53 (2009), 561-86.
• (with A.-H. Maehle) ‘Limits of professional secrecy: medical confidentiality in England and Germany in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries’, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, vol. 31, 231-44.
• ‘Paul Marquard Schlegel (1605-1653), Arzt’, in: F. Kopitzsch and D. Brietzke (eds), Hamburgische Biografie: Personenlexikon, vol. 3, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2006, pp. 339-340.