CV Prof. Dr. Heiner Fangerau

Heiner Fangerau was born in Bremen. He is the director of the Institute for the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine at Ulm University, Germany. After having studied medicine, he wrote his thesis about the German "Racial-Hygiene-Movement". His postdoctoral thesis focussed the early development of biomedicine and biomedical ethics at the beginning of the 20th century using the example of the German-American physiologist Jacques Loeb (1859-1924).
His works encompass the history and ethics of psychiatry, ethical infrastructure, the history of genetics and eugenics.

His current research interests include the history, philosophy and ethics of the life-sciences, especially the shaping of medicine as a life science around 1900. Here he is concentrating on questions of the transfer of knowledge and scientific networks.  Further interests include classification and evolution in medical diagnostics and medical imaging.

Publications

heiner.fangerau [at] uni-ulm.de

Tel. +49 731 500 39901

Fax. +49 731 500 39902