Andreas‐holger Maehle
Biographic Data
| ID | 4865477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas‐holger Maehle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas‐holger |
| FAMILY NAME | Maehle |
| SIGNATURE | MAEHLE A H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6119-6129 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Noortje Jacobs, Ethics by Committee
Reflecting on the trying out of new remedies or surgical procedures on hospital patients, Manchester physician Thomas
Aligning Faith with Medicine
This paper focuses on intersections of medical ethics and religious commitments by charting conceptions of the Catholic doctor in French and English‐language normative texts from the mid‐nineteenth to the mid‐twentieth century. Behavioural norms for doctors were increasingly emphasised in writings on pastoral medicine, especially regarding obstetrics and advice on sexual hygiene, with the Ten Commandments and the Sacraments forming the initial et…
Beyond Professional Self-interest
Traditional historiography tends to draw a negative picture of British doctors’ ethics during the long nineteenth century. The medical professional ethics of this period have been described as self-serving and as a tool to monopolise the health care market. In this paper I attempt to challenge this rather one-sided view by looking into evidence for the practice of medical ethics, not just its normative texts. Focusing on the disciplinary function…
History of hypnotism in Europe and the significance of place
Since the 1990s a number of studies, such as Alan Gauld's A history of hypnotism , Alison Winter's Mesmerized , Daniel Pick's Svengali's web , Andreas Mayer's Sites of the unconscious and, most recently, William Hughes' That devil's trick , have elucidated the scientific as well as the popular cultures in which mesmeric and hypnotic practices thrived in the nineteenth century.1 By the end of the nineteenth century – that is, the time on which the…
A dangerous method? The German discourse on hypnotic suggestion therapy around 1900
In the late nineteenth century, German-speaking physicians and psychiatrists intensely debated the benefits and risks of treatment by hypnotic suggestion. While practitioners of the method sought to provide convincing evidence for its therapeutic efficacy in many medical conditions, especially nervous disorders, critics pointed to dangerous side effects, including the triggering of hysterical attacks or deterioration of nervous symptoms. Other cr…
The powers of suggestion
The Berlin physician Albert Moll (1862–1939) was an advocate of hypnotic suggestion therapy and a prolific contributor to the medical, legal and public discussions on hypnotism from the 1880s to the 1920s. While his work in other areas, such as sexology, medical ethics and parapsychology, has recently attracted scholarly attention, this paper for the first time comprehensively examines Moll’s numerous publications on hypnotism and places them in …
Die unpolitische Profession
The attitudes of German doctors towards politics have been questioned by historians for some time (by Michael Kater and Eduard Seidler, for example), especially in view of the medical profession’s notorious involvement in National Socialism. The myth of the ‘apolitical doctor’ has largely been dismantled, but what exactly were the prevalent views of German medical professionals towards the world of politics in the nineteenth and early twentieth c…
Ambiguous cells
This paper elucidates the origins of scientific work on stem cells. From the late nineteenth century onwards, the notion of stem cells became customary in scientific communities of Imperial Germany. Adopting the term Stammzelle from Ernst Haeckel, Theodor Boveri was influential in introducing the concept in embryological studies and early genetics around 1900, describing a capacity of stem cells for self-renewal as well as differentiation. At the…
Patient trade’ in Germany
In 2009 the German media featured the so-called 'patient trade' scandal. Offending against the rules of the professional code for German doctors, some medical practitioners had accepted bonus payments from specific hospitals for referring patients to them. This article discusses a historical precedent for this scandal, the patient trade affair of 1909, in which several medical professors of the Berlin university clinics were accused of having pai…
Limits of professional secrecy
Among patients as well as doctors it is commonly held that confidentiality has been the foundation of the therapeutic relationship since the introduction of the Hippocratic oath. Nevertheless, medical confidentiality is a controversial issue, for example in current debates on HIV/AIDS, especially with regard to the question whether sexual contacts of patients infected with HIV should be warned by doctors. Consequentialist arguments are used to ju…
Die Medizin und der Erste Weltkrieg
Protecting Patient Privacy or Serving Public Interests
With the Penal Code of 1871, confidentiality became a legal requirement for physicians, surgeons, and other health professions throughout Imperial Germany. However, based on an analysis of the relevant legal cases up to the First World War, this article argues that the professional secrecy of German doctors was increasingly challenged by an ethos that put public interests before patient privacy. This development became particularly tangible in ca…
Cruelty and Kindness to the ‘Brute Creation’
In the period from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century ethical evaluations of human relationships with animals were influenced by various religious, philosophical and social factors. Contemporary views of animals were connected with such different areas as biblical exegesis and Christian morals, animal psychology, theory of moral rights and duties, vegetarianism, and love for pets. This chapter examines the role of these factors withi…
Limits of professional secrecy
Among patients as well as doctors it is commonly held that confidentiality has been the foundation of the therapeutic relationship since the introduction of the Hippocratic oath. Nevertheless, medical confidentiality is a controversial issue, for example in current debates on HIV/AIDS, especially with regard to the question whether sexual contacts of patients infected with HIV should be warned by doctors. Consequentialist arguments are used to ju…
Protecting Patient Privacy or Serving Public Interests
With the Penal Code of 1871, confidentiality became a legal requirement for physicians, surgeons, and other health professions throughout Imperial Germany. However, based on an analysis of the relevant legal cases up to the First World War, this article argues that the professional secrecy of German doctors was increasingly challenged by an ethos that put public interests before patient privacy. This development became particularly tangible in ca…
Cruelty and Kindness to the ‘Brute Creation’
In the period from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century ethical evaluations of human relationships with animals were influenced by various religious, philosophical and social factors. Contemporary views of animals were connected with such different areas as biblical exegesis and Christian morals, animal psychology, theory of moral rights and duties, vegetarianism, and love for pets. This chapter examines the role of these factors withi…
Die Medizin und der Erste Weltkrieg
Protecting Patient Privacy or Serving Public Interests
With the Penal Code of 1871, confidentiality became a legal requirement for physicians, surgeons, and other health professions throughout Imperial Germany. However, based on an analysis of the relevant legal cases up to the First World War, this article argues that the professional secrecy of German doctors was increasingly challenged by an ethos that put public interests before patient privacy. This development became particularly tangible in ca…
Limits of professional secrecy
Among patients as well as doctors it is commonly held that confidentiality has been the foundation of the therapeutic relationship since the introduction of the Hippocratic oath. Nevertheless, medical confidentiality is a controversial issue, for example in current debates on HIV/AIDS, especially with regard to the question whether sexual contacts of patients infected with HIV should be warned by doctors. Consequentialist arguments are used to ju…
Patient trade’ in Germany
In 2009 the German media featured the so-called 'patient trade' scandal. Offending against the rules of the professional code for German doctors, some medical practitioners had accepted bonus payments from specific hospitals for referring patients to them. This article discusses a historical precedent for this scandal, the patient trade affair of 1909, in which several medical professors of the Berlin university clinics were accused of having pai…
Ambiguous cells
This paper elucidates the origins of scientific work on stem cells. From the late nineteenth century onwards, the notion of stem cells became customary in scientific communities of Imperial Germany. Adopting the term Stammzelle from Ernst Haeckel, Theodor Boveri was influential in introducing the concept in embryological studies and early genetics around 1900, describing a capacity of stem cells for self-renewal as well as differentiation. At the…
The powers of suggestion
The Berlin physician Albert Moll (1862–1939) was an advocate of hypnotic suggestion therapy and a prolific contributor to the medical, legal and public discussions on hypnotism from the 1880s to the 1920s. While his work in other areas, such as sexology, medical ethics and parapsychology, has recently attracted scholarly attention, this paper for the first time comprehensively examines Moll’s numerous publications on hypnotism and places them in …
Die unpolitische Profession
The attitudes of German doctors towards politics have been questioned by historians for some time (by Michael Kater and Eduard Seidler, for example), especially in view of the medical profession’s notorious involvement in National Socialism. The myth of the ‘apolitical doctor’ has largely been dismantled, but what exactly were the prevalent views of German medical professionals towards the world of politics in the nineteenth and early twentieth c…
History of hypnotism in Europe and the significance of place
Since the 1990s a number of studies, such as Alan Gauld's A history of hypnotism , Alison Winter's Mesmerized , Daniel Pick's Svengali's web , Andreas Mayer's Sites of the unconscious and, most recently, William Hughes' That devil's trick , have elucidated the scientific as well as the popular cultures in which mesmeric and hypnotic practices thrived in the nineteenth century.1 By the end of the nineteenth century – that is, the time on which the…
A dangerous method? The German discourse on hypnotic suggestion therapy around 1900
In the late nineteenth century, German-speaking physicians and psychiatrists intensely debated the benefits and risks of treatment by hypnotic suggestion. While practitioners of the method sought to provide convincing evidence for its therapeutic efficacy in many medical conditions, especially nervous disorders, critics pointed to dangerous side effects, including the triggering of hysterical attacks or deterioration of nervous symptoms. Other cr…
Beyond Professional Self-interest
Traditional historiography tends to draw a negative picture of British doctors’ ethics during the long nineteenth century. The medical professional ethics of this period have been described as self-serving and as a tool to monopolise the health care market. In this paper I attempt to challenge this rather one-sided view by looking into evidence for the practice of medical ethics, not just its normative texts. Focusing on the disciplinary function…
Aligning Faith with Medicine
This paper focuses on intersections of medical ethics and religious commitments by charting conceptions of the Catholic doctor in French and English‐language normative texts from the mid‐nineteenth to the mid‐twentieth century. Behavioural norms for doctors were increasingly emphasised in writings on pastoral medicine, especially regarding obstetrics and advice on sexual hygiene, with the Ten Commandments and the Sacraments forming the initial et…
Noortje Jacobs, Ethics by Committee
Reflecting on the trying out of new remedies or surgical procedures on hospital patients, Manchester physician Thomas
Political science (10 works) · Medical History and Research (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · German (4 works)