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The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) was an important institution in the national socialist health system. It was established as the Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases and incorporated into the Imperial Health Office in 1935, before being upgraded to an imperial institution in 1942. On the one hand, the RKI was a respected institute alongside the Imperial Health Office and other scientific institutions, that conducted research and provided expert advice in the service of political interests. On the other hand, it was a service provider in the production, distribution, standardization, and marketing of vaccines – services which because of the war were in high demand and involved cooperation with industry and the military.
Against this backdrop, the conference will take as its point of departure the RKI and it’s main fields of research and proceed to place them in a comparative, international perspective. The goal is to consider not just national, but also international and transnational developments and changes in institutions and research priorities in order to identify and reassess the potentially unique status of the RKI.
Friday, 18th of January 2008
9.30 Reception
Carola Sachse (Advisory Board)
Volker Hess (Project Director)
Reinhard Burger (RKI)
10.00 Marion Hulverscheidt / Anja Laukötter /
Annette Hinz-Wessels (Berlin)
The Approach of the Conference –
An Introduction
Theoretical Implications (Chair: UlrikeThoms)
10.30 Rüdiger Hachtmann (Berlin)
Die Beziehung zwischen Institution und Individuum am Beispiel der KWG
11.00 Andrew Mendelsohn (London)
Modeling Epidemics and Policies in Germany, Britain, and the U.S.: Some Reflections on National and International Patterns, 1915-1940
11.30 Silvia Berger (Zürich)
Infections and the War
12.00 Christoph Gradmann (Oslo)
Commentary
Discussion
12.30 Lunch
Fields of Research: The Robert Koch-Institute in international Perspective (Chair: Petra Fuchs)
14.00 Gabriele Moser (Heidelberg)
Plague Strains of the Pasteur Institute: Research and Development of a German Vaccine Against Plague by the Robert Koch Institute in
Nazi-Occupied Europe
14.30 Anja Laukötter (Berlin)
From Smallpox to Caries – Heinrich A. Gins and the Constructed Danger of International Diseases
15.00 Paul Weindling (Oxford)
The International Career of the Virologist
Eugen Haagen
15.30 Carola Sachse (Wien)
Commentary
Discussion
Institutions und Infections in international comparison I(Chair: Volker Hess)
16.30 Darwin H. Stapleton (New York City)
The Rockefeller Foundation and its
Anti-Typhus Project, 1939-1945
17.00 Henrik Tjornelund (Roskilde)
“Fleckfieber” – The Robert Koch Institute
and the Statens Serum Institute
17.30 Jean-Paul Gaudillière (Paris)
An Embarassement of Links: Chemotherapeutic Research in the Pasteur Institute and the German Pharmaceutical Industry, 1935-1945
18.00 Christian Bonah (Straßburg)
Commentary
Discussion
20.30 Dinner
Samstag, 19. Januar 2008
Institutions und Infections in international Comparison II (Chair: Annette Hinz-Wessels)
10.00 Michael Simunek (Prag)
Securing and Managing Public Health. Public Health Institute in Prague, 1925-1945
10.30 Josep Lluís Barona Vilar (Valencia)
Coping with Infectious Diseases in Spain. National Institutions and Fields of Action, 1901-1945
11.00 Peter Kröner (Münster)
Commentary
Discussion
12.00 Wolfgang U. Eckart (Heidelberg)
Commentary of the conference
Discussion
13.00 End
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