Volker Roelcke: born in 1958; graduated in medicine (M.D., Heidelberg University 1984) and social anthropology (M. Phil., Cambridge University 1988); clinical psychiatrist (board exam 1992); from 1992 until 1999 lecturer at the Medizinhistorisches Institut, University of Bonn; 1998/99 visiting scholar at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science/ Presidential Commission on the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Society during the Nazi period; from 1999 until 2003 associate professor for the History of Medicine and Science,<!--break--> University of Lübeck; since 2003 full professor and Director, Institute for the History of Medicine, University of Giessen, Germany; main research interests: 19th and 20th century German psychiatry, medicine during the Nazi period; the relationships between eugenics and medical genetics during the 20th century; as well as the history and ethics of human research.
Psychiatric Genetics in Germany, Britain, and the United States
Volker Roelcke
24 November 2009 Oxford Brookes University, History of Medicine Seminar Series
In this lecture, Volker Roelcke details the history of the relationships between eugenics and medical genetics between 1910-1060, demonstrating that the history of eugenics can yield broader analytical tools for investigating the international dimension connecting medicine, science, and politics. Volker reconstructs the emergence of institutionalized research agendas in the field of psychiatric genetics in three national contexts,
- Die Etablierung der psychiatrischen Genetik in Deutschland, Grossbritannien und den USA, ca. 1910-1960: Zur untrennbaren Geschichte von Eugenik und Humangenetik.” Acta Historica Leopoldina 48 (2007): pp.173-190.
- “Funding the scientific foundations of race policies: Ernst Rüdin and the impact of career resources on psychiatric genetics, ca. 1910-1945.” in: Wolfgang U. Eckart (ed.), Man, Medicine, and the State: The Human Body as an Object of Government Sponsored Medical Research in the 20th Century. Stuttgart: F. Steiner, 2006: pp.73-87.
- with Hans Jakob Ritter. “Psychiatric Genetics in Munich and Basel between 1925-1945: Programs – Practices – Co-operative Arrangements.” Osiris 20 (2005): pp.263-288.
- with S. Oehler-Klein (eds). Vergangenheitspolitik in der universitären Medizin nach 1945: Institutionelle und individuelle Strategien im Umgang mit dem Nationalsozialismus. Stuttgart, 2007.
- with G. Maio (eds). Twentieth-Century Ethics of Human Subjects Research: Historical Perspectives on Values, Practices, and Regulations. Stuttgart, 2004.
- with Christian Bonah (eds.). La médecine expérimentale au tribunal. Implications éthiques de quelques procès médicaux du XXe siècle européen. Paris: Étienne Lepicard, 2003.
- “Programm und Praxis der psychiatrischen Genetik an der Deutschen Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie unter Ernst Rüdin: Zum Verhältnis von Wissenschaft, Politik und Rasse-Begriff vor und nach 1933.” Medizinhistorisches Journal 37 (2002): pp.21-55.
- Krankheit und Kulturkritik: Psychiatrische Gesellschaftsdeutungen im bürgerlichen Zeitalter, 1790-1914 (Frankfurt 1999)
