Priv.-Doz. Dr. phil. Matthis Krischel
Senior Lecturer
Department of the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine
Centre for Health and Society, Medical Faculty
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Email: matthis.krischel@hhu.de
Phone: +49 211 81 06432
Link directly to this page: matthiskrischel.de
Research Interests
History and ethics of medicine and of the life sciences, especially
- Nazi medicine and its commemoration
- History and ethics of human genetics
- History and ethics of urology, venerology and sexology
- Ethics and history of dentistry
Current Research Projects
Exhibiting a democratic society? GeSoLei as a microcosm of the Weimar Republic (German Research Foundation [DFG], 2023-2027)
Between punishment and attempted cure. Castration of sexual offenders and homosexuals in Germany, 1933-1989 (German Research Foundation [DFG], 2024-2028)
Short Biography
| 2024 | Gisela Eisenreich Fellowship, Gisela Eisenreich Foundation |
| 2023 | Habilitation for History and Philosophy of Medicine, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
| 2022 | Certified Coordinator for Ethics Consultation in Health Care (German Academy of Ethics in Medicine) |
| 7/2022-8/2022 | Visiting scholar, Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, Munich |
| 2019 | Certified Ethics Consultant in Health Care (German Academy for Ethics in Medicine) |
| 3/2018-5/2018 | Visiting Scholar, Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA |
| 4/2017 | Visiting Lecturer, Riga Stradiņš University, Latvia |
| 1/2016-2/2016 | Visiting scholar, Departamento de Ciencias Básicas de la Salud, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain |
| Since 2016 | Lecturer at the Department of History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
| 2015 | Lecturer, Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Georg August University Göttingen |
| 2012-2015 | Lecturer, Department of History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine, RWTH Aachen University; PI on a research project on the history of dentistry in Nazi Germany |
| 2013 | PhD in History and Philosophy of Medicine, Ulm University |
| 2013 | Herbert Lewin Research Prize, German Medical Association |
| 2012 | Earl Nation Retrospectroscope Award, American Urological Associattion |
| 2009-2012 | Research and teaching associate, Department of History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine, Ulm University; employed in the project "Evolution and Classification in Biology, Linguistics and the History of Science" |
| 2007 | M.A. in History of Science, University of Oklahoma |
| 2002-2007 | Studies in History of Science at Technischen Universität Berlin and the University of Oklahoma |
Publications
For a list of publications, please refer to the German version of this page.