Volker Roelcke
Biographic Data
| ID | 874618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Volker Roelcke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Volker |
| FAMILY NAME | Roelcke |
| SIGNATURE | ROELCKE V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7841-4954 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The animal model of human disease as a core concept of medical research: Historical cases, failures, and some epistemological considerations
Argument This article uses four historical case studies to address epistemological issues related to the animal model of human diseases and its use in medical research on human diseases. The knowledge derived from animal models is widely assumed to be highly valid and predictive of reactions by human organisms. In this contribution, I use three significant historical cases of failure (ca. 1890, 1960, 2006), and a closer look at the emergence of t…
Medicine during the Nazi period and the Holocaust: What are the implications? An interview with Volker Roelcke
In this interview, Volker Roelcke explains and analyzes historical evidence refuting erroneous assumptions about medical atrocities committed by physicians during the Nazi era, provides insight into the implications of medicine during the Nazi period and the Holocaust for medicine and bioethics today, analyzes the history of the term "genocide," and suggests formats for future teaching, among other topics
Biografie, sozialer Kontext und Körper im Experiment: Evidenz durch integrierte Methodik am Beispiel der Blutdruckforschung bei Thure von Uexküll
Der Wiesbadener Internistenkongress 1949 war Bühne für eine heftige Kontroverse zu Fragen der Methodik, Epistemologie und Evidenz in der psychosomatischen Medizin. Paul Martini, Internist und Protagonist methodisch durchgeführter klinischer Studien, kritisierte in diesem Kontext die Methodik psychosomatischer Wissensproduktion und bezweifelte die Validität der postulierten Einsichten. Ausgehend von dieser Kontroverse rekonstruiert der Beitrag die…
Subjekt, Statistik, Wissenschaft: Epistemologische Positionierungen und Evidenzpraktiken in der klinischen Medizin seit 1949
Eugenic concerns, scientific practices: International relations in the establishment of psychiatric genetics in Germany, Britain, the USA and Scandinavia, c .1910–60
The article describes the emergence of research programmes, institutions and activities of the early protagonists in the field of psychiatric genetics: Ernst Rüdin in Munich, Eliot Slater in London, Franz Kallmann in New York and Erik Essen-Möller in Lund. During the 1930s and well into the Nazi period, the last three had been research fellows at the German Research Institute for Psychiatry in Munich. It is documented that there was a continuous …
Auf der Suche nach der Politik in der Wissensproduktion: Plädoyer für eine historisch‐politische Epistemologie
In Search of Politics in Knowledge Production. A Plea for a Historical‐Political Epistemology. Knowledge production has an intrinsic political dimension. Starting from this presupposition, it is argued that the systematic integration of and reflection on the political dimension is necessary for an adequate understanding of historical processes of knowledge production in the sciences. The consecutive plea for a historical‐political epistemology pr…
'Ethical Turn'?: Geisteswissenschaften in neuer Verantwortung
Psychiatric Genetics in Munich and Basel between 1925 and 1945: Programs-Practices-Cooperative Arrangements
The first research institution worldwide to exclusively devote its research to psychiatric genetics was the Department of Genealogy and Demography at the German Institute for Psychiatric Research (Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie) in Munich, founded in 1917. In 1924, it was integrated into the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. From its foundation until the end of World War II in 1945, the department was directed by the Swiss citizen Ernst Rüdin, …
Medizin - eine Kulturwissenschaft? Wissenschaftsverständnis, Anthropologie und Wertsetzungen in der modernen Heilkunde
Persönliches. Selbstzeugnisse
Biologizing social facts: An early 20th century debate on Kraepelin‘s concepts of culture, neurasthenia, and degeneration
Discovering the history of psychiatry
Psychiatric research and 'euthanasia'. The case of the psychiatric department at the University of Heidelberg, 1941-1945
The history of German psychiatry is characterized not only by the influential traditions of Kraepelin and Jaspers, but also by the “euthanasia” program that involved the killing of more than 100,000 psychiatric ill and mentally handicapped people as a consequence of the social and health policy of the National Socialists. Since the early 1980s, much work has been done on both the ideological background and the actual practice of the “euthanasia” …
Auf der Suche nach der Politik in der Wissensproduktion: Plädoyer für eine historisch‐politische Epistemologie
In Search of Politics in Knowledge Production. A Plea for a Historical‐Political Epistemology. Knowledge production has an intrinsic political dimension. Starting from this presupposition, it is argued that the systematic integration of and reflection on the political dimension is necessary for an adequate understanding of historical processes of knowledge production in the sciences. The consecutive plea for a historical‐political epistemology pr…
Psychiatric research and 'euthanasia'. The case of the psychiatric department at the University of Heidelberg, 1941-1945
The history of German psychiatry is characterized not only by the influential traditions of Kraepelin and Jaspers, but also by the “euthanasia” program that involved the killing of more than 100,000 psychiatric ill and mentally handicapped people as a consequence of the social and health policy of the National Socialists. Since the early 1980s, much work has been done on both the ideological background and the actual practice of the “euthanasia” …
Biologizing social facts: An early 20th century debate on Kraepelin‘s concepts of culture, neurasthenia, and degeneration
Discovering the history of psychiatry
Persönliches. Selbstzeugnisse
Medizin - eine Kulturwissenschaft? Wissenschaftsverständnis, Anthropologie und Wertsetzungen in der modernen Heilkunde
Psychiatric Genetics in Munich and Basel between 1925 and 1945: Programs-Practices-Cooperative Arrangements
The first research institution worldwide to exclusively devote its research to psychiatric genetics was the Department of Genealogy and Demography at the German Institute for Psychiatric Research (Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie) in Munich, founded in 1917. In 1924, it was integrated into the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. From its foundation until the end of World War II in 1945, the department was directed by the Swiss citizen Ernst Rüdin, …
'Ethical Turn'?: Geisteswissenschaften in neuer Verantwortung
Auf der Suche nach der Politik in der Wissensproduktion: Plädoyer für eine historisch‐politische Epistemologie
In Search of Politics in Knowledge Production. A Plea for a Historical‐Political Epistemology. Knowledge production has an intrinsic political dimension. Starting from this presupposition, it is argued that the systematic integration of and reflection on the political dimension is necessary for an adequate understanding of historical processes of knowledge production in the sciences. The consecutive plea for a historical‐political epistemology pr…
Eugenic concerns, scientific practices: International relations in the establishment of psychiatric genetics in Germany, Britain, the USA and Scandinavia, c .1910–60
The article describes the emergence of research programmes, institutions and activities of the early protagonists in the field of psychiatric genetics: Ernst Rüdin in Munich, Eliot Slater in London, Franz Kallmann in New York and Erik Essen-Möller in Lund. During the 1930s and well into the Nazi period, the last three had been research fellows at the German Research Institute for Psychiatry in Munich. It is documented that there was a continuous …
Biografie, sozialer Kontext und Körper im Experiment: Evidenz durch integrierte Methodik am Beispiel der Blutdruckforschung bei Thure von Uexküll
Der Wiesbadener Internistenkongress 1949 war Bühne für eine heftige Kontroverse zu Fragen der Methodik, Epistemologie und Evidenz in der psychosomatischen Medizin. Paul Martini, Internist und Protagonist methodisch durchgeführter klinischer Studien, kritisierte in diesem Kontext die Methodik psychosomatischer Wissensproduktion und bezweifelte die Validität der postulierten Einsichten. Ausgehend von dieser Kontroverse rekonstruiert der Beitrag die…
Subjekt, Statistik, Wissenschaft: Epistemologische Positionierungen und Evidenzpraktiken in der klinischen Medizin seit 1949
The animal model of human disease as a core concept of medical research: Historical cases, failures, and some epistemological considerations
Argument This article uses four historical case studies to address epistemological issues related to the animal model of human diseases and its use in medical research on human diseases. The knowledge derived from animal models is widely assumed to be highly valid and predictive of reactions by human organisms. In this contribution, I use three significant historical cases of failure (ca. 1890, 1960, 2006), and a closer look at the emergence of t…
Medicine during the Nazi period and the Holocaust: What are the implications? An interview with Volker Roelcke
In this interview, Volker Roelcke explains and analyzes historical evidence refuting erroneous assumptions about medical atrocities committed by physicians during the Nazi era, provides insight into the implications of medicine during the Nazi period and the Holocaust for medicine and bioethics today, analyzes the history of the term "genocide," and suggests formats for future teaching, among other topics
Philosophy (7 works) · Medical History and Research (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychoanalysis (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · German (4 works)