Papers

2023

  • ‘Treating Addiction that could not exist: Addiction, East German Doctors, and Western Methods in the German Democratic Republic’ – ESSHC, Göteborg, 14 April 2023‘ – ESSHC, Göteborg, 14 April 2023

2022

  • ‘Sucht in der DDR und digitale Tools: Erforschung von Patient*innengeschichte mit Gephi‘ – Medizinhistorische Kaffeerunde, Online Talk, Erlangen, 4 November 2022
  • ‘Alien to Socialism: Drug Addiction and Drug Treatment in Socialist East Germany‘ – Baltic Connections, Jyväskyla, 16 June 2022

2021

  • ‘“ExpertTurn” – Expertise in Authoritarian Societies: Human Sciences in the
    Socialist Countries of East-Central Europe‘ – Südwestdeutsche Regionalkonferenz zur Medizin- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte („Brezelkonferenz“), Online Conference, 20 November 2021
  • ‘Political Change, Predicaments, and Epidemics: Medical Expertise and Authority in Postwar East Germany‘ – Authority and Medical Expertise: Health as a Social Good and Political Argument in Eastern Europe, Russia and Beyond, International Historical Conference of the German Association for East European Studies in cooperation with the Herder-Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe and the German-Polish Society for the History of Medicine, Marburg, Online Conference, 21 October 2021
  • Commentator – 3. Workshop: “Doing Psychiatry / Psychiatric Practices in Europe, 1945-1990”, Berlin, 07 October 2021
  • ‘Political Change, Predicaments, and Epidemics: Medical Expertise and Authority in Postwar East Germany‘ – Authority and Medical Expertise: Health as a Social Good and Political Argument in Eastern Europe, Russia and Beyond, International Historical Conference of the German Association for East European Studies in cooperation with the Herder-Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe and the German-Polish Society for the History of Medicine, Marburg, Online Conference, 21 October 2021
  • ‘It all began with my snoring man: Pharmaceutical and Alcohol Abuse of Women and its Treatment in Socialist East Germany’ – Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Online, 28 September 2021
  • ‘Dysfunctional Socialist Citizens: Gender-Specific Therapies for Alcoholism and Promiscuity in the German Democratic Republic’ – European Social Science History Conference, Leiden, Online Conference, 27 March 2021

2020

  • ‘Treating East German Subjects: Everyday Life and Medical Care of Patients with Alcohol Addiction in Late Socialism’ – German Studies Association, Seminar: ‘Socialist Subjectivities: Rethinking East Germany under Honecker’, Online Conference, 3 October 2020
  • ‘Doing Drugs in East Germany: Pharmaceutical Addiction and Ideological Campaigns in the GDR’ – New Social History of Pharmacy & Pharmaceuticals, Online Festival, 26 September 2020 → Youtube
  • ‘“Warum saufen die bloß?“ – Erfahrungen von Alkoholabhängigen in der DDR [“Why are they boozing?” – Experiences of Alcohol Addicted People in the GDR]’ – Online Kolloquium Prof. Dirk van Laak, Universität Leipzig, Germany, 23 June 2020
  • ‘“Die beste Prophylaxis ist der Sozialismus“ – Medizin und Gesundheit in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik [“The best prophylaxis is Socialism” – Medicine and Health in the GDR]’ – Seniorenakademie, Kornwestheim, Germany, 11 March 2020

2019

  • ‘Die Behandlung und Betreuung von alkoholabhängigen Menschen in der DDR am Beispiel des Krankenhauses Arnsdorf bei Dresden [The Treatment and Care of Alcoholaddicted People in the GDR on the Example of the Hospital Arnsdorf near Dresden]’ – DGPPN Kongress 2019, Berlin, Germany, 28 November 2019
  • ‘“Das erledigt sich von selbst“ – Prostitution im sozialistischen Dresden [“The matter will resolve itself” – Prostitution in Socialist Dresden]’ – Dresdens gekaufte Liebe: Prostitution im Wandel der Zeit, Dresden, Germany, 17 June 2019
  • ‘Diabetes and Socialism: The patients´ view of a chronic disease in former East Germany’ – American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) Meeting 2019, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 27 April 2019
  • ‘Alkoholiker und Diabetiker im Betriebsalltag der DDR [Alcoholics and Diabetics and Their Experiences at Work in East Germany]’ – 38. Stuttgarter Fortbildungsseminar: Gesundheit und Krankheit im Kontext von Arbeit, Stuttgart, Germany, 3 April 2019
  • ‘Die verhandelte Vergangenheit: Strategien NS-belasteter Ärzte in der SBZ/DDR [The Negotiated Past: Strategies of NS Doctors in Postwar East Germany]‘ – Medizintäter: Ärzte und Ärztinnen im Spiegel der NS-Täterforschung, Erlangen, Germany, 2 April 2019
  • ‘The New Man in East Germany does not Drink Alcohol: Para-medicalised Debates and Treatments of Alcohol Addiction’ – Drink and Power: Alcohol and the Making of Illiberal Regimes in the Long 20th Century, Berlin, Germany, 16 March 2019

2018

  • ‘Patient-Sein erleben – Die Erfahrung von Patienten mit Alkoholabhängigkeit, Diabetes oder Geschlechtskrankheiten in der DDR’ – Südwestdeutsche Regionalkonferenz der Medizin- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Brezelkonferenz), Heidelberg,  Germany, 17 November 2018
  • ‘Patient-Sein erleben: Alkoholiker in der DDR’ – Arbeitsgemeinschaft Psychiatrie in der DDR, Berlin, Germany, 10 November 2018
  • ‘Die Erfahrungen und Behandlung von alkoholkranken Patienten in der DDR, Bsp. Arnsdorf’ – Klinikkonferenz der Psychiatrie des Sächsischen Krankenhauses Arnsdorf, Germany, 6 November 2018
  • ‘Erziehung oder Verwahrung? Tradition und Neuanfang im Fürsorgeheim Dresden-Leuben nach 1945 [Education or Custody? Tradition and New Beginning in the Care Home/Workhouse Dresden-Leuben after 1945]’ – 21. Sonnensteinsymposium, Pirna, Germany, 27 October 2018
  • ‘Treating Deviance under Socialism: Experiences of Patients with Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Alcohol Addiction in East Germany’ – Conference of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, Liverpool, UK, 11-13 July 2018 → Abstract
  • ‘“Verboten war das Alkoholtrinken, aber da es welchen im Betrieb gab…”. Die Erfahrungen und Behandlung von alkoholkranken Patienten in der DDR [“It was forbidden to drink alcohol, but because they had it at work…”: Experiences and Treatment of Alcoholics in East Germany]’ – Conference: Sozialgeschichte des Gesundheitswesens der DDR, Stuttgart, Germany, 9-10 July 2018 → Abstract
  • ‘A Remnant of Capitalism? Treating Alcoholism under Socialism in East Germany’ – Conference of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, Cambridge, 13-15 April 2018 → Abstract
  • ‘Gesund-Sein und Krank-Sein im Sozialismus: Analytische Überlegungen zum Habilitationsprojekt “Patientenerfahrungen in der DDR”’ – Institutskolloquium, Stuttgart, Germany, 14 February 2018
  • ‘Eine “verwahrloste” Jugend? Die Pathologisierung von Jugendverhalten in Ostdeutschland nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg [A “Depraved” Youth? Pathologising Youth Behaviour in East Germany after the Second World War]’ – Oberseminar, Universität Ulm, Germany, 15 January 2018 → Abstract
  • ‘“Asocial”, “Weak”, or “Sick”? Debating the Social and Medical Concept of Alcohol Addiction in East Germany during the 1970s’ – Socialist International Health Workshop, funded by the Wellcome Trust, University of Exeter, UK, 12-13 January 2018 → Abstract

2017

  • ‘“Your Right, Your Duty”: Experiences of Patients with Alcohol Addiction, Diabetes, and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the German Democratic Republic’ – Conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health in Bucharest, Romania, 31 August 2017 → Abstract
  • ‘Dictated or Guided? Shaping the ‘New’ Socialist Healthcare System in the Soviet Occupied Zone of Germany, 1945-1949’ – Conference: Occupations in the Age of Total War: Micro Perspectives and Transnational Research, Canterbury, UK, 22 June 2017 → Abstract
  • ‘Institutionalised Treatments of the Past: The Case of the Workhouse Dresden in Postwar East Germany’ – Conference of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine/ Canadian Association for the History of Nursing and Canadian Historical Association, Toronto, CAN, 29 May 2017 → Abstract

2015

  • ‘A Walk Through the Waiting Room: Local Doctor-Patient-Relationships in Post-War East Germany’ – GDR Today II Conference, Bristol, UK, 10-11 September 2015 → Abstract
  • ‘Raped and Forgotten? Sexual Violence against Women and Children in Post-War East Germany’ – AAEH Conference, Newcastle, Australia, 14-17 July 2015 → Abstract
  • ‘“Women are the Problem.” Stigmatisation and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Post-War East Germany’ – ANZSHM and ISHM Conference, Sydney, Australia, 30 June – 4 July 2015 → Abstract

2013

  • ‘“Why are you so afraid that we won’t return?” The East German medical Intelligentsia in the 70s’ – History Department Seminar, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 27 February 2013 → Abstract