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,






