Florian Steger
Florian Steger is a German medical historian and medical ethicist.
Life and impact
Steger studied human medicine, classical philology and history at the University of Würzburg and Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Steger was a scholarship holder and is now a trust lecturer of the German National Academic Foundation. In 2002, he received his doctorate from the Ruhr University of Bochum with a thesis on ancient medicine. In 2003, he received the Bavarian Habilitation Award. In 2008, he habilitated in the history and ethics of medicine at the Medical Faculty of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and worked as a private lecturer in the history and ethics of medicine. From 2009 to 2014, he was a member of the Junge Akademie.From 2011 to June 2016, Steger was W3 professor and director of the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine at the Martin [Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg|University of Wittenberg]. Since July 2016, he has been a university professor and director of the at the University of Ulm. Steger chairs the Ethics Committee of the University of Ulm and the Commission "Responsibility in Science". He is a member of the Senate.
Main areas of work
His work focuses on questions of history, theory and ethics of medicine: research ethics, clinical ethics, good scientific practice; politicized medicine; cultural history of medicine since antiquity.Honors
- 2014: Leibniz Professorship at the University of Leipzig.
- 2018: Medal "Universitatis Lodziensis Amico" by the University of Łódź.
- 2018: honorary professor of the Semmelweis University, Budapest
- 2019: Corresponding member of the Saxon [Academy of Sciences and Humanities]
- 2019: Alexander von Humboldt Polish Honorary Research Scholarship
- 2020: corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 2021: Honorary Professor of the Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University
- 2021: full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 2022: corresponding member abroad of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
- International visiting professorships: Riga, Rijeka, Łódź, and Moscow.
Publications
- Max Mohr : Korrespondenzen. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013..
- with Maximilian Schochow: Disziplinierung durch Medizin – Die geschlossene Venerologische Station in der Poliklinik Mitte in Halle 1961 bis 1982 . Halle 2014,.
- with Maximilian Schochow: Traumatisierung durch politisierte Medizin Geschlossene Venerologische Stationen in der DDR . Berlin 2015,.
- with Carolin Wiethoff and Maximilian Schochow: Vertuschter Skandal – Die kontaminierte Anti-D-Prophylaxe in der DDR 1978/1979 und ihre Folgen . Halle 2016,.
- Asclepius: Cult and Medicine. Stuttgart 2018,.
- with Maximilian Schochow: Wo ist mein Kind? Familien auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit. Ein Beitrag zur Aufarbeitung. Halle 2020,.
- Max Mohr. Arzt und rastloser Literat. Regensburg 2020,.
- Antike Medizin. Einführung und Quellensammlung. Stuttgart 2021,.
- Die Medizin von heute ist der Irrtum von morgen. Scharfzüngige Gedanken zur Medizin . Wiesbaden 2017,.
- Am Skalpell war noch Tinte. Literarische Medizin . Wiesbaden: marix Verlag 2018.
- with Carolin Wiethoff: Betriebsgesundheitswesen und Arbeitsmedizin im Bezirk Magdeburg . Halle 2018,.
- with Marcin Orzechowski und Maximilian Schochow : Pränatalmedizin. Ethische, juristische und gesellschaftliche Aspekte . Freiburg 2018,.
- with Manuela Dudeck : Ethik in der Forensischen Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie . Berlin 2018,.
- Jahrbuch Literatur und Medizin . Volume 11. Heidelberg 2019,.
- Diversität im Gesundheitswesen . Freiburg 2019,.
- with Jürgen Brunner : Ethik in der psychotherapeutischen Praxis. Integrativ-fallorientiert-werteplural . Stuttgart 2019,.
- with Marcin Orzechowski, Giovanni Rubeis, Maximilian Schochow : Migration and Medicine. Freiburg 2020,.