Volker He
Biographic Data
| ID | 1154300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Volker He |
| GIVEN NAMES | Volker |
| FAMILY NAME | He |
| SIGNATURE | HE V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7500-2567 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
War Imprisonment and Clinical Narratives of Psychiatric Illness, Psychiatric Hospital Charité, Berlin, 1948–1956
While the historical analysis of psychological trauma from warfare has been extensive, traumatic illness in East German psychiatric practice after the Second World War has drawn little attention. The dominant literature uses West German political and medical discourses as sources to investigate the relationship between traumatic experience and psychiatric illness. This paper instead draws from East German patient files from 1948 until 1956 to exa…
Bookkeeping madness. Archives and filing between court and ward
The paper reconstructs the invention of the loose file system in German psychiatry in the early nineteenth century as a special case of medical and juridical relationship. The loose file allows the gathering of all information of the treatment of the respective patient in one folder, which enables it to be reordered for the different ways of reimbursing care, providing cure, and to store the patient’s file for re-use in the case of re-admission. …
Exploring the fringes of psychopathology: Boundary entities, category work and other borderline phenomena in the history of 20th century psychopathology
This special issue of History of the Humane Sciences intends to shed light on a series of psychopathological entities that do not target well defined conditions and experiences, but rather aim at delimiting zones of uncertainty that defy psychopathology’s order of things: mild diagnoses or subthreshold disorders, borderline conditions, culture bound syndromes, or ideas of dimensions and dimensionality. While these categories have come to play an …
A Paper Machine of Clinical Research in the Early Twentieth Century
This article introduces Turing's idea of a "paper machine" to identify and understand one important mode of clinical research in the modern hospital, how that research worked, and how office technology and industrialized labor shaped and helped drive it. The unusually rich archives of Berlin psychiatry allow detailed reconstruction of the making of the new diagnostic category "hyperkinetic syndrome" in the 1920s. From the generating of data to th…
Praktiken der Frühen Neuzeit: Akteure - Handlungen - Artefakte
Sauvages’ Paperwork: How Disease Classification Arose from Scholarly Note-Taking
What was classification as it first took modern form in the eighteenth century, and how did it relate to earlier ways of describing and ordering? We offer new answers to these questions by examining medicine rather than botany and by reconstructing practice on paper. First among disease classifications was the ‘nosology’ of the Montpellier physician François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix. Analysis of his hitherto unstudied notebooks and of the …
General Introduction
On November 27, 1961, the pharmaceutical manufacturer Grünenthal withdrew its wildly successful sleeping pill — Contergan — from the market. At the time, Contergan was the most frequently used soporific in West Germany, raking in unprecedented profits for the manufacturer. Just the day before that, Germany’s largest weekly newspaper, Die Welt am Sonntag, had published a short two-column piece with the headline “Tablets causing birth defects: Alar…
Ways of Regulating Drugs in the 19th and 20th Centuries
This collection takes the perspective that the historiography of science, technology, and medicine needs a broader approach toward regulation. The authors explore the distinct social worlds involved i
Writing the history of psychiatry in the 20th century
As editors of the special issue, we try to summarize here the historiographic trends of the field. We argue that the field of research is accommodating the diversity of the institutional, social and political developments. But there is no narrative in sight which can explain the psychiatry of the 20th century, comparable to the authoritative coherence achieved for the 19th century. In contrast, the efforts to extend these narratives to the 20th c…
The Rodewisch (1963) and Brandenburg (1974) propositions
The Classic Text presents two documents of the development of modern social psychiatry. Both show the early beginnings of the reform movement in the GDR — in contrast to the FRG where the reform did not take place until the late 1970s. Adopted in 1963, the Rodewisch propositions formulate for the first time the central issues of the German reform debate in psychiatry. The Brandenburg propositions (1974) document how the reform movement was shifti…
Regulating Risks? Der Umgang mit Life-Style-Drugs zwischen potentieller Gefährdung und kalkuliertem Risiko
Case and Series: Medical Knowledge and Paper Technology, 1600-1900
The Administrative Stabilization of Vaccines: Regulating the Diphtheria Antitoxin in France and Germany, 1894-1900
ArgumentIt is well known that the development of a diphtheria anti-toxin serum evolved in a competitive race between two groups of researchers, one affiliated with Emil Behring in Berlin and Marburg, and another affiliated with Émile Roux in Paris. Proceeding on the basis of different theoretical assumptions and experimental practices, the two groups developed a therapeutic serum almost simultaneously. But the standardized substance they develope…
Raum und Disziplin. Klinische Wissenschaft im Krankenhaus
The historical shift in the function of the hospital from an asylum for the care of the indigent sick to a medical‐therapeutic institution is intimately associated with the exploitation of the hospital as a clinical facility. Thus, over the course of the 19th century the space of the hospital and its disciplinary structure was permeated and reorganized by clinical practices. Drawing on the example of the Charite hospital in Berlin, it can be show…
Messen und Zählen. Die Herstellung des normalen Menschen als Maß der Gesundheit
The emergence of a ‘norm of normalcy’ in 19th century laboratories and hospitals was in no way simply a byproduct of the scientific search for knowledge. It was instead closely associated with expectations of social egalitarianism which merged with the moral economy of a new scientific objectivity. The establishment of normal people as a valid measure for a population socially divided and segregated in estates was thus an essential element of the…
Kunst oder Wissenschaft: Konzeptionen der Medizin in der deutschen Romantik (review)
Reviewed by: Kunst oder Wissenschaft? Konzeptionen der Medizin in der deutschen Romantik Volker Hess Urban Wiesing. Kunst oder Wissenschaft? Konzeptionen der Medizin in der deutschen Romantik. Medizin und Philosophie, no. 1. Stuttgart and Bad Cannstatt: Fromann-Holzboog, 1995. 365 pp. DM 80.00 (paperbound). In the history of German sciences, romantic medicine is one of the most embroiled of topics. Prior to romanticism, medical thought was seldom…
Gerard L'E. Turner: The Practice of Science in the Nineteenth Century: Teaching and Research Apparatus in the Teyler Museum. Haarlem: The Teyler Museum 1996. 360 Seiten. 150 Dfl
Case and Series: Medical Knowledge and Paper Technology, 1600-1900
A Paper Machine of Clinical Research in the Early Twentieth Century
This article introduces Turing's idea of a "paper machine" to identify and understand one important mode of clinical research in the modern hospital, how that research worked, and how office technology and industrialized labor shaped and helped drive it. The unusually rich archives of Berlin psychiatry allow detailed reconstruction of the making of the new diagnostic category "hyperkinetic syndrome" in the 1920s. From the generating of data to th…
Raum und Disziplin. Klinische Wissenschaft im Krankenhaus
The historical shift in the function of the hospital from an asylum for the care of the indigent sick to a medical‐therapeutic institution is intimately associated with the exploitation of the hospital as a clinical facility. Thus, over the course of the 19th century the space of the hospital and its disciplinary structure was permeated and reorganized by clinical practices. Drawing on the example of the Charite hospital in Berlin, it can be show…
The Administrative Stabilization of Vaccines: Regulating the Diphtheria Antitoxin in France and Germany, 1894-1900
ArgumentIt is well known that the development of a diphtheria anti-toxin serum evolved in a competitive race between two groups of researchers, one affiliated with Emil Behring in Berlin and Marburg, and another affiliated with Émile Roux in Paris. Proceeding on the basis of different theoretical assumptions and experimental practices, the two groups developed a therapeutic serum almost simultaneously. But the standardized substance they develope…
Bookkeeping madness. Archives and filing between court and ward
The paper reconstructs the invention of the loose file system in German psychiatry in the early nineteenth century as a special case of medical and juridical relationship. The loose file allows the gathering of all information of the treatment of the respective patient in one folder, which enables it to be reordered for the different ways of reimbursing care, providing cure, and to store the patient’s file for re-use in the case of re-admission. …
Sauvages’ Paperwork: How Disease Classification Arose from Scholarly Note-Taking
What was classification as it first took modern form in the eighteenth century, and how did it relate to earlier ways of describing and ordering? We offer new answers to these questions by examining medicine rather than botany and by reconstructing practice on paper. First among disease classifications was the ‘nosology’ of the Montpellier physician François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix. Analysis of his hitherto unstudied notebooks and of the …
Gerard L'E. Turner: The Practice of Science in the Nineteenth Century: Teaching and Research Apparatus in the Teyler Museum. Haarlem: The Teyler Museum 1996. 360 Seiten. 150 Dfl
Kunst oder Wissenschaft: Konzeptionen der Medizin in der deutschen Romantik (review)
Reviewed by: Kunst oder Wissenschaft? Konzeptionen der Medizin in der deutschen Romantik Volker Hess Urban Wiesing. Kunst oder Wissenschaft? Konzeptionen der Medizin in der deutschen Romantik. Medizin und Philosophie, no. 1. Stuttgart and Bad Cannstatt: Fromann-Holzboog, 1995. 365 pp. DM 80.00 (paperbound). In the history of German sciences, romantic medicine is one of the most embroiled of topics. Prior to romanticism, medical thought was seldom…
Messen und Zählen. Die Herstellung des normalen Menschen als Maß der Gesundheit
The emergence of a ‘norm of normalcy’ in 19th century laboratories and hospitals was in no way simply a byproduct of the scientific search for knowledge. It was instead closely associated with expectations of social egalitarianism which merged with the moral economy of a new scientific objectivity. The establishment of normal people as a valid measure for a population socially divided and segregated in estates was thus an essential element of the…
Raum und Disziplin. Klinische Wissenschaft im Krankenhaus
The historical shift in the function of the hospital from an asylum for the care of the indigent sick to a medical‐therapeutic institution is intimately associated with the exploitation of the hospital as a clinical facility. Thus, over the course of the 19th century the space of the hospital and its disciplinary structure was permeated and reorganized by clinical practices. Drawing on the example of the Charite hospital in Berlin, it can be show…
The Administrative Stabilization of Vaccines: Regulating the Diphtheria Antitoxin in France and Germany, 1894-1900
ArgumentIt is well known that the development of a diphtheria anti-toxin serum evolved in a competitive race between two groups of researchers, one affiliated with Emil Behring in Berlin and Marburg, and another affiliated with Émile Roux in Paris. Proceeding on the basis of different theoretical assumptions and experimental practices, the two groups developed a therapeutic serum almost simultaneously. But the standardized substance they develope…
Regulating Risks? Der Umgang mit Life-Style-Drugs zwischen potentieller Gefährdung und kalkuliertem Risiko
Case and Series: Medical Knowledge and Paper Technology, 1600-1900
Writing the history of psychiatry in the 20th century
As editors of the special issue, we try to summarize here the historiographic trends of the field. We argue that the field of research is accommodating the diversity of the institutional, social and political developments. But there is no narrative in sight which can explain the psychiatry of the 20th century, comparable to the authoritative coherence achieved for the 19th century. In contrast, the efforts to extend these narratives to the 20th c…
The Rodewisch (1963) and Brandenburg (1974) propositions
The Classic Text presents two documents of the development of modern social psychiatry. Both show the early beginnings of the reform movement in the GDR — in contrast to the FRG where the reform did not take place until the late 1970s. Adopted in 1963, the Rodewisch propositions formulate for the first time the central issues of the German reform debate in psychiatry. The Brandenburg propositions (1974) document how the reform movement was shifti…
General Introduction
On November 27, 1961, the pharmaceutical manufacturer Grünenthal withdrew its wildly successful sleeping pill — Contergan — from the market. At the time, Contergan was the most frequently used soporific in West Germany, raking in unprecedented profits for the manufacturer. Just the day before that, Germany’s largest weekly newspaper, Die Welt am Sonntag, had published a short two-column piece with the headline “Tablets causing birth defects: Alar…
Ways of Regulating Drugs in the 19th and 20th Centuries
This collection takes the perspective that the historiography of science, technology, and medicine needs a broader approach toward regulation. The authors explore the distinct social worlds involved i
Sauvages’ Paperwork: How Disease Classification Arose from Scholarly Note-Taking
What was classification as it first took modern form in the eighteenth century, and how did it relate to earlier ways of describing and ordering? We offer new answers to these questions by examining medicine rather than botany and by reconstructing practice on paper. First among disease classifications was the ‘nosology’ of the Montpellier physician François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix. Analysis of his hitherto unstudied notebooks and of the …
Praktiken der Frühen Neuzeit: Akteure - Handlungen - Artefakte
Bookkeeping madness. Archives and filing between court and ward
The paper reconstructs the invention of the loose file system in German psychiatry in the early nineteenth century as a special case of medical and juridical relationship. The loose file allows the gathering of all information of the treatment of the respective patient in one folder, which enables it to be reordered for the different ways of reimbursing care, providing cure, and to store the patient’s file for re-use in the case of re-admission. …
Exploring the fringes of psychopathology: Boundary entities, category work and other borderline phenomena in the history of 20th century psychopathology
This special issue of History of the Humane Sciences intends to shed light on a series of psychopathological entities that do not target well defined conditions and experiences, but rather aim at delimiting zones of uncertainty that defy psychopathology’s order of things: mild diagnoses or subthreshold disorders, borderline conditions, culture bound syndromes, or ideas of dimensions and dimensionality. While these categories have come to play an …
A Paper Machine of Clinical Research in the Early Twentieth Century
This article introduces Turing's idea of a "paper machine" to identify and understand one important mode of clinical research in the modern hospital, how that research worked, and how office technology and industrialized labor shaped and helped drive it. The unusually rich archives of Berlin psychiatry allow detailed reconstruction of the making of the new diagnostic category "hyperkinetic syndrome" in the 1920s. From the generating of data to th…
War Imprisonment and Clinical Narratives of Psychiatric Illness, Psychiatric Hospital Charité, Berlin, 1948–1956
While the historical analysis of psychological trauma from warfare has been extensive, traumatic illness in East German psychiatric practice after the Second World War has drawn little attention. The dominant literature uses West German political and medical discourses as sources to investigate the relationship between traumatic experience and psychiatric illness. This paper instead draws from East German patient files from 1948 until 1956 to exa…
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