Dr. Felicitas Söhner
Lecturer
Department of the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine
Centre for Health and Society, Medical Faculty
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Email: Felicitas.Soehner@hhu.de
Phone: +49 211 81 06458 (Department Administrator)
Research Interests
Medical and social history of the 20th and 21st centuries, in particular
- History of medical child protection
- History of psychiatry
- History of human genetics
Oral history and contemporary history
European culture of memory and its biographical processing
Short Biography
| Since 2016 | Research fellow at the Department of History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf |
| 2016 | Research fellow at the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine, University of Cologne |
| 2013–2016 | Research associate at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy II, University Ulm |
| 2013–2015 | Research fellow at the Institute for History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine, University of Ulm |
| 2012–2013 | Research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy and History, University of Passau |
| 2012 | Dissertation at the Institute for Modern German and European History at the University of Hagen (Referees: Peter Brandt, Friedhelm Boll) |
| 2006–2009 | M.A. degree in "History and Literature of European Modernity" at the University of Hagen |
| 2003–2006 | B.A. degree in "Cultural Studies" (Sociology, Philosophy, Literature and History) at the University of Hagen |
Memberships (Selection)
Association of Medical History (Germany)
Austrian society for the social history of medicine
Deutsch-Polnische Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin – Polsko-Niemieckie Towarzystwo Historii Medycyny
Discussion Network Eastern-Central Europa of the German Society for Foreign Affairs
east-west forum Gut Gödelitz
European Association for the History of Medicine and Health
German Academy for Ethics in Medicine
German Historians' Association
International Oral History Association
International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology
Society for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology (Germany)
Publications
For a list of publications, please refer to the German version of this page.