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Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine (IBME)

History of Medicine Department

The History of Medicine Department is part of the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine within the University of Zurich (UZH). It is an interdisciplinary chair and the team participates in research and teaching in the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Philosophy. Prof. Dr. phil. Flurin Condrau is the chairman of the History of Medicine Department.

The researchers of the History of Medicine Department are also members of the Center « History of Knowledge » (Center of Excellence of UZH and ETH Zürich) and participate in the AG Medical Humanities.

The Department of History of Medicine stems from the History of Medicine Institute, founded in 1951. From 1957 to 1971, the German-American medical historian, physician and ethnologist Erwin H. Ackerknecht (1906-1988) was the Chairman of the Institute. Ackerknecht made the Zurich Institute internationally known.

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Contact

University of Zurich
Chair of History of Medicine
Winterthurerstrasse 30
CH-8006 Zürich
Tel. +41 44 634 20 71

Archive Location

Universität Zürich
Archiv für Medizingeschichte
Winterthurerstrasse 30
CH-8006 Zürich

gudrun.kling@uzh.ch

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