Teaching the history of medicine in Switzerland, past and present
Mayer, R.; Boschung, U.; Buess, H.; Fischer-Homberger, E.; Hintzsche, E.; Jenzer, H.
Vesalius Acta Internationales Historiae Medicinae 6(1): 42-50
2000
ISSN/ISBN: 1373-4857 PMID: 11624588 Document Number: 523617
This article covers the teaching of the history of medicine at the Swiss universities of Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne and Zurich and from its initially modest proportions until it reached the standard it achieved in the Twentieth Century. Brief biographies are provided of the principal protagonists from earliest times to the current holders of the chairs of the history of medicine. It concludes with a brief account of the current structure and organization of the various institutes, together with their fields of research and education.