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, 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.