Prof. Dr. Ulf Schmidt
Nucleus-Professor
Deutsche Geschichte
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Kontakt
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Qian Lu
Tel.: +49 40 42838-9054
E-Mail: qian.lu"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Centre for the Study of Health, Ethics and Society
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- History of Post-War Europe (East/West)
- History of Medicine and Medical Ethics
- History of Global Health Ethics and Human Rights
- History of Human Experimentation
- History of the Cold War
- History of Modern Germany, 20th and 21st Centuries
- History of Weimar Germany
- History of German National Socialism and the Third Reich
- History of Post-War Germany (GDR/FRG)
- History of Medical War Crimes
- History of Eugenics
- History of Conflict and Violence
- History of Chemical and Biological Weapons
- History of Propaganda
Biographische Notiz
- 2020–present Professor of Modern History, University of Hamburg, Germany
- 2007–2020 Professor of Modern History, University of Kent, Canterbury
- 2019–2020 Research Excellence Framework (REF) Coordinator, School of History / Division of Humanities
- 2015–2018 Director of Research (DoR), School of History
- 2010–2020 Founding Director of the Centre for the History of Medicine, Ethics and Medical Humanities, University of Kent
- 2005–2007 Senior Lecturer, University of Kent
- 2002–2005 Lecturer (Grade B), University of Kent
- 2001–2002 Lecturer (Grade A), University of Kent
- 1997–2000 Postdoctoral Research Fellows, University of Oxford
Publikationsliste
Monographien
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Ulf Schmidt (2019), Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments (OUP, Oxford, 2019). 637 pages. ISBN 978-0198833802
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Ulf Schmidt et al. eds. (2019), Propaganda and Conflict: War, Media and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century (London, Bloomsbury, 2019) 380 pages. ISBN 978-1788314039
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Schmidt, U. (2015). Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
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Schmidt, U. (2009). Hitlers Arzt Karl Brandt: Medizin Und Macht Im Dritten Reich. Aufbau Verlag.
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Schmidt, U. (2007). Karl Brandt, the Nazi Doctor: Medicine and Power in the Third Reich. London, UK: Continuum.
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Schmidt, U. (2004). Justice at Nuremberg: Leo Alexander and the Nazi Doctors’ Trial. UK: Palgrave/Macmillan.
- Schmidt, U. (2002). Medical Films, Ethics and Euthanasia in Germany, 1933-1945. Germany: Husum, Matthiesen.
Herausgeber
- Ulf Schmidt, Andreas Frewer, Dominique Sprumont eds. (2020), Ethical Research: The Declaration of Helsinki—Past, Present and Future of Human Experimentation (OUP, Oxford, New York, 2020) 580 pages. ISBN: 9780190224172. Erhältlich unter: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ethical-research-9780190224172?cc=de&lang=en&
- Connelly, M., Schmidt, U. and Goebel, S. (2019). Propaganda and Conflict: War, Media and Shaping the Twentieth Century. [Online]. Connelly, M. L., Fox, J., Schmidt, U. and Goebel, S. P. eds. Bloomsbury Academic. Erhältlich unter: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/propaganda-and-conflict-9781788314039/
- Schmidt, U. and Frewer, A. (2014). Forschung Als Herausforderungen für Ethik Und Menschenrechte. 50 Jahre Deklaration Von Helsinki, 1964-2014. [Online]. Schmidt, U. and Frewer, A. eds. Koln: Deutscher Ärzteverlag. Erhältlich unter: https://www.brocher.ch/en/publications/forschung-als-herausforderungen-fur-ethik-und-menschenrechte-50-jahre-deklaration-von-helsinki-1964-2014/
- Frewer, A., Schmidt, U. (2007). Standards Der Forschung. Historische Entwicklung Und Ethische Grundlagen Klinischer Studien [Klinische Ethik. Biomedizin und Praxis, Bd. 1], Peter Lang.
- Schmidt, U. and Frewer, A. eds. (2007). History and Theory of Human Experimentation: The Declaration of Helsinki and Modern Medical Ethics. Vol. 2. Stuttgard: Franz Steiner Verlag.
Zeitschriftenartikel
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Jonathan Moreno, Judit Sándor, Ulf Schmidt (2022), ‘Autonomy and Social Responsibility: The Post-Pandemic Challenge’, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 65 (2022), No. 3, 426-441. https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2022.0035
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Ulf Schmidt (2021), ‘From Nuremberg to Helsinki: Historicising Research Ethics during Health Crisis’, Clinical Evaluation, 49 (2021), Suppl XXXVIII, pp. 149-153.
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Jonathan Moreno, Judit Sándor, Ulf Schmidt (2021), ‘The Vaccination Cold War’, Hastings Centre Journal (2021), 12-17. Erhältlich unter: https://doi.org/10.1002/hast.1282
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Schmidt, U. (2019). Creating a ‘FatherConfessor’: the origins of research ethics committees in UK military medical research, 1950–1970. Part II, origins and organisation. Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps [Online] 165:291-297. Erhältlich unter: https://doi.org/10.1136/jramc-2019-001207
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Schmidt, U. (2019). Creating a ‘FatherConfessor’: the origins of research ethics committees in UK military medical research, 1950–1970. Part I, context and causes. Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps [Online] 165:284-290. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1136/jramc-2019-001206
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Schmidt, U. (2013). Ohne Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben. Hitlers Arzt Karl Brandt. Damals [Online]:24-29. Available at: http://www.damals.de/de/16/Ohne-Ehrfurcht-vor-dem-Leben.html?issue=189357&aid=189838&cp=1&action=showDetails
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Schmidt, U. (2007). Turning the history of medical ethics from its head onto its feet: A critical commentary on Baker and McCullough. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 17:31-42.
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Schmidt, U. (2006). Cold War at Porton Down: Informed Consent in Britain’s Biological and Chemical Warfare Experiments. Cambridge Quarterly for Healthcare Ethics [Online] 15:366-380. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0963180106060488
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Schmidt, U. (2005). The Scars of Ravensbrück: Medical Experiments and British War Crimes Policy, 1945-1950. German History 23:20-49.
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Schmidt, U. (2002). Medicina e Nazismo. Sistema Salute 2:9-18.
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Schmidt, U., Frewer, A., Gottschalk, K., Malzig, U. and Zimmermann, V. (2001). Zwangsarbeit und Medizin im “Dritten Reich". Deutsches Ärzteblatt [Online]:2866-2870. Available at: http://www.aerzteblatt.de/archiv/29235/Geschichte-und-Ethik-der-Medizin-Zwangsarbeit-und-Medizin-im-Dritten-Reich
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Schmidt, U. (2001). Der medizinische Forschungsfilm im Dritten Reich: Seine Institutionalisierung, politische Funktion und ethische Dimension. Zeitgeschichte 4:200-214.
- Schmidt, U. (2001). Discussing Slave Labourers in Nazi Germany: Topography of Research or Politics of Memory?. German History [Online] 19:408-417. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/026635501680193933
Aufsätze
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Ulf Schmidt (2024): ‘The Holocaust and the Medical Professions’, in: Roseman, M., (ed.), Cambridge History of the Holocaust, vol. 4 (Jockusch, L., Pendas, D., eds.) (Cambridge, forthcoming)
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Ulf Schmidt (2023), ‘From Nuremberg to Helsinki: Historicising the Codification of Post-War Research Ethics’, in: Kurihara, C., Dhai, A., Greco, D. (eds.), Ethical Innovation for Global Health: Pandemic, Democracy and Ethics in Research (Springer, Berlin, in press)
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Ulf Schmidt, Martin Köttering (2023), ‘Preface’, in: Köttering, M., Schmidt, U. (eds.), Imagining Health. Exhibition Catalogue 2022 (Hamburg, Materialverlag HfBK Hamburg, 2023), p. 3.
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Ulf Schmidt, Dominique Sprumont; Andreas Frewer (2020): ‘Introduction: The Limits of Altruism’, in: Schmidt, U., Frewer, A., Sprumont, D. (eds.), Ethical Research: The Declaration of Helsinki—Past, Present and Future of Human Experimentation (Oxford, New York, OUP, 2020), pp. 1-43.
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Ulf Schmidt (2020), ‘In the Absence of Alternatives: The Origins and Success of the Helsinki Declaration, 1947-1982’, in: Schmidt, U., Frewer, A., Sprumont, D. (eds.), Ethical Research: The Declaration of Helsinki—Past, Present and Future of Human Experimentation (Oxford, New York, OUP, 2020), pp. 101-130.
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Ulf Schmidt, Markus Wahl (2020), ‘Doctors and Research Behind the Iron Curtain: Medical Ethics Debates and the Declaration of Helsinki in East Germany (1961-1989)’, in: Schmidt, U., Frewer, A., Sprumont, D. (eds.), Ethical Research: The Declaration of Helsinki—Past, Present and Future of Human Experimentation (Oxford, New York, OUP, 2020), pp. 167-189.
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Dominique Sprumont, Ulf Schmidt, Andreas Frewer (2020): ‘Some Reflections on Research Ethics’, in: Schmidt, U., Frewer, A., Sprumont, D. (eds.), Ethical Research: The Declaration of Helsinki—Past, Present and Future of Human Experimentation (Oxford, New York, OUP, 2020), pp. 551-553.
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Ulf Schmidt (2020), ‘Chronopoiesis – The Making of Time’, in: McGrath, D., Project Cleansweep – Beyond the Post-Military Landscape of the United Kingdom, stand-alone essay (Kehrer Verlag, 2020), pp. 200-211.
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Ulf Schmidt et al. eds. (2019), Prologue: ‘Power and Persuasion’: Propaganda into the twenty-first century’, in: (with Mark Connelly, Jo Fox, Stefan Goebel, Ulf Schmidt eds.), Propaganda and Conflict: War, Media and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century (London, New York, I.B. Tauris, 2019), pp. 1-12.
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Ulf Schmidt et al. eds. (2019), ‘Part I: The First World War and Inter-war Period’, in: (with Mark Connelly, Jo Fox, Stefan Goebel, Ulf Schmidt eds.), Propaganda and Conflict: War, Media and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century (London, New York, I.B. Tauris, 2019), pp. 15-19.
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Ulf Schmidt, Katja Schmidt-Mai (2019): ‘Art under Dictatorship: Propaganda, Plunder, and Provenance’, in: (with Mark Connelly, Jo Fox, Stefan Goebel, Ulf Schmidt eds.), Propaganda and Conflict: War, Media and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century (London, New York, I.B. Tauris, 2019), pp. 57-89.
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Ulf Schmidt et al. eds. (2019), ‘Part II: The Second World War’, in: (with Mark Connelly, Jo Fox, Stefan Goebel, Ulf Schmidt eds.), Propaganda and Conflict: War, Media and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century (London, New York, I.B. Tauris, 2019), pp. 93-97.
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Ulf Schmidt et al. eds. (2019), ‘Part III: Post-War and Cold War’, in: (with Mark Connelly, Jo Fox, Stefan Goebel, Ulf Schmidt eds.), Propaganda and Conflict: War, Media and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century (London, New York, I.B. Tauris, 2019), pp. 185-190.
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Ulf Schmidt (2018), ‘Sozialhygienische Filme und Propaganda in der Weimarer Republik’, in: Baader, G., Peter, J. (eds.), Public Health, Eugenik und Rassenhygiene in der Weimarer Republik und im Nationalsozialismus (Mabuse Verlag Frankfurt am Main, 2018), pp. 79-118.
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Schmidt, U. (2017). Preparing for Poison Warfare: The Ethics and Politics of Britain’s Chemical Weapons Program, 1915–1945. In: One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences. Springer, pp. 77-104. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51664-6_6
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Schmidt, U. (2015). Geschichte und Ethik in der DDR-Medizin. In: Medizinethik in Der DDR. Moralische Und Menschenrechtliche Fragen Im Gesundheitswesen. Franz Steiner Verlag, pp. 205-211.
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Schmidt, U. and Wahl, M. (2014). Ärzte hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang: Medizinethische Diskurse und die Deklaration von Helsinki in der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, 1961-1989. In: Forschung Als Herausforderungen für Ethik Und Menschenrechte. 50 Jahre Deklaration Von Helsinki, 1964-2014. Jahrbuch Medizinethik, pp. 71-86.
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Schmidt, U. and Frewer, A. (2014). Geschichte und Ethik der Humanforschung. 50 Jahre Deklaration von Helsinki. Zur Einführung. In: Forschung Als Herausforderungen für Ethik Und Menschenrechte. 50 Jahre Deklaration Von Helsinki, 1964-2014. Jahrbuch Medizinethik, pp. 9-13.
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Schmidt, U. and Frewer, A. (2014). The Declaration of Helsinki as a Landmark for Research Ethics – Protecting Human Participants in Modern Medicine. In: The World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki, 1964-2014. 50 Years of Evolution of Medical Research Ethics. Koln: Deutscher Ärzteverlag, pp. 56-57.
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Schmidt, U. (2014). Karl Brandt, médecin de Hitler. In: Une médecine De Mort. Du Code De Nuremberg à l’éthique médicale Contemporaine. Paris: Vendémiaire Éditions, pp. 55-68.
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Schmidt, U. (2013). Accidents and Experiments: Nazi Chemical Warfare Research and Medical Ethics during the Second World War. In: Carrick, D. G. and Gross, M. L. eds. Military Medical Ethics for the 21st Century (Military and Defence Ethics). Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 225-244.
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Schmidt, U. (2012). Justifying Chemical Warfare’. The Origins and Ethics of Britain’s Chemical Warfare Programme, 1915-1939. In: Welch, D. and Fox, J. eds. Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 129-158.
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Schmidt, U. (2012). Reflections on the Origins of the Declaration of Helsinki. In: Jahrbuch Medizinethik. Deutscher Ärzte Verlag.
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Schmidt, U. (2011). "Holding One’s Breath": Reflections on the Origins of the Declaration of Helsinki. In: Die Deklaration Von Helsinki: Revisionen Und Kontroversen. Germany: Deutscher Ärzte Verlag, pp. 1-16.
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Schmidt, U. (2011). "Holding Ones’ Breath": Reflections on the Origins of the Declaration of Helsinki. In: Ehni, H.-J. and Wiesing, U. eds. Jahrbuch Medizinethik. Deutscher Ärzte Verlag, pp. 1-17.
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Schmidt, U. (2009). Medical Ethics and Nazism. In: McCullough, L. B. and Baker, R. eds. The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 595-608.
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Schmidt, U. (2008). The Scars of Ravensbrück: Medical Experiments and British War Crimes Policy, 1945-1950. In: Atrocities on Trial. Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Prosecuting German War Crimes. University of Nebraska Press, pp. 123-157.
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Schmidt, U. (2007). The Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial and the Nuremberg Code. In: History and Theory of Human Experimentation. The Declaration of Helsinki and Modern Medical Ethics. Franz Steiner, pp. 71-116.
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Schmidt, U. (2007). Medical Ethics and Human Experimentation at Porton Down: Informed Consent in Britain’s Biological and Chemical Warfare Experiments. In: History and Theory of Human Experimentation. The Declaration of Helsinki and Modern Medical Ethics. Franz Steiner, pp. 283-313.
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Schmidt, U. (2007). History and Ethics of Human Experimentation: The Twisted Road to Helsinki. In: History and Theory of Human Experimentation. The Declaration of Helsinki and Modern Medical Ethics. Franz Steiner, pp. 7-23.
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Schmidt, U. (2007). Nuremberg Code of Medical Ethics: Geschichte und Ethik des Ärzteprozesses. In: Standards Der Forschung. Historische Entwicklung Und Ethische Grundlagen Klinischer Studien. Peter Lang, pp. 37-73.
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Schmidt, U. (2007). Zur Medizinethik des Humanexperiments. Standards und Stand der Forschung. In: Standards Der Forschung. Historische Entwicklung Und Ethische Grundlagen Klinischer Studien. Peter Lang, pp. 7-16.
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Schmidt, U., Frewer, A. and Wolters, C. (2004). Hilfskräfte, Hausschwangere, Untersuchungsobjekte. Der Umgang mit Zwangsarbeitenden in der Universitätsfrauenklinik Göttingen. In: Medizin Und Zwangsarbeit Im Nationalsozialismus. Einsatz Und Behandlung Von “Ausländern” Im Gesundheitswesen. Campus Verlag.
- Schmidt, U. (2001).Der Ärzteprozeß als moralische Instanz? Der Nürnberger Kodex und das Problem “zeitloser Medizinethik.” In: Medizingeschichte Und Medizinethik 1900 – 1950. Campus Fachbuch, pp. 334-373.
Ausstellungskataloge
- Martin Köttering, Ulf Schmidt eds. (2023), Imagining Health. Exhibition Catalogue 2022 (Hamburg, Materialverlag HfBK Hamburg, 2023).
Rezensionen
- Schmidt, U. (2014). Review of Pathogens for War. Biological Weapons, Canadian Life Scientists, and North American Biodefence. Donald Avery. Social History of Medicine 27:827-829.
- Schmidt, U. (2003). Review of Die Institutionalisierung der Medizinhistoriographie: Entwicklungslinien vom 19. ins 20. Jahrhundert. Social History of Medicine:147-148.
- Schmidt, U. (2003). Review of Science in the Third Reich. History 88:170-171.
Aktuelle Projekte
- Taming the European Leviathan
- HFBK