Research activities

In the next five years the research activities of the Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease (CHMD) will focus on two main areas: the relations between the private sphere and the public sphere in the history of medicine and public health; and the interaction between lay knowledge and expert knowledge about health and disease. The current Research Projects are:

• Medical Confidentiality and Patient Privacy in Historical Perspective (Prof. Andreas-Holger Maehle)
• Historicizing Stem Cells (Prof. Andreas-Holger Maehle)
• Sex Education in Films (Dr Lutz Sauerteig)
• Sex, Ethics and Psychology: The Networks and Cultural Context of Albert Moll (1862-1939) (Prof. Andreas-Holger Maehle, Dr Lutz Sauerteig, Sebastian Pranghofer, M.A.)
• Knowledge, Ethics and Representation of Medicine and Health - Historical Perspectives (Prof. Andreas-Holger Maehle, Dr Lutz Sauerteig, Prof. Peter Atkins, Prof. Philip van der Eijk, Dr Jonathan Andrews, Dr Thomas Rütten)
• Public Health Policies and Medical Confidentiality in England and Germany, 1870s–1930s (Prof. Andreas-Holger Maehle)
• A Comparative History of Sex Education in England and Germany, 1880s-1970s (Dr Lutz Sauerteig)
• Pathological Sounds: The History of Music as a Threat to the Nerves (Dr James Kennaway) 
• The Production of Pharmacological Knowledge and the Receptor Concept in the 20th Century (Prof. Andreas-Holger Maehle , Dr Cay-Rüdiger Prüll, Prof. Robert F. Halliwell)
• The Role of the Clergy in Health Care in 13th- and 14th- Century Portugal (Dr Iona McCleery)
• Visualisations of the Human Body in Anatomical Discourses in Early Modern Europe (Sebastian Pranghofer, M.A.)
• Clinical Science in Newcastle and Durham medical societies, 1848-1914 (Victoria Blake, MA)
• The Human-Animal Boundary: Adding a New Perspective to the Pre-Modern History of the Nervous System (Stephanie Eichberg, M.A., MA)
• Public Health Challenges for General Practitioners in the Tees Valley during the 20th Century (Victoria Brown, MA)
• The Case of Myxœdema: The Formation, Standardisation and Dissemination of Medical Knowledge in late Nineteenth-Century Britain by means of the Professional Journal (Daniel Becker, MA)
• Caesarean Sections on Request: Perceptions and Positions (1996-2008)(Carla Hermges, MA) 
• Bioethization and Juridification of Medicine in Colombia in the context of the health care reform of 1993 (Eduardo Diaz-Amado, MA)

Staff of the CHMD currently collaborate with:

• Professor Robert Baker, Union College, New York, USA
• Professor Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck College, London
• Dr Cornelia Brink, University of Freiburg, Germany
• Professor Roger Davidson, University of Edinburgh
• Professor Robert F. Halliwell, University of the Pacific, Stockton California, USA
• Dr Hans-Georg Hofer, University of Bonn, Germany
• Professor Laurence McCullough, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas, USA
• PD Dr Cay-Rüdiger Prüll, University of Heidelberg, Germany
• Dr Sarah Toulalan, Exeter University