["A completely new global situation?" Homoeopathic publishing and modern world in the 1950s and 1960s]. / "Eine völlig neue Weltsituation"? Homöopathische Publizistik und moderne Zivilisation in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren.

This explorative paper analyses the Allgemeine Homiopathische Zeitung (AHZ) in the 1950ies and 1960ies, paying particular attention to how the homoeopathic physicians who published there commented on modernity in medicine and society. Toxicology, endocrinology, cybernetics and neural therapy were discussed by them as possible links with biomedicine. Modern civilization was mainly portrayed as pathogenic, but sometimes that very fact was seen as a chance for homoeopathy. Also, many authors of the AHZ had a positive view on some aspects of modern medicine and technology. The paper ends by discussing possibilities for further research in contemporary history based on journal publications by homoeopathic doctors.

[Magic bullets, chemical gagging, controlled risks? On the research of the network "Pharmaceuticals in the 20th century" of the German Research Foundation (DFG)]. / Magic Bullets, chemische Knebel, beherrschte Risiken? Zum Arbeitsfeld des DFG-Forschungsnetzwerks "Arzneistoffe im 20. Jahrhundert".

Therapeutic substances, their development, testing, application and effects, have in recent years become a central topic of the history of medicine, history of science, and science and technology studies. This paper provides an overview of the literature on this topic through the four-fold perspective of individual substances, industry, patients, and regulation. It introduces the recently established, DFG-funded research network "Pharmaceuticals in the 20th Century" and sketches current methodological approaches to the history of therapeutic substances. At present it appears to be particularly promising to adopt an approach which uses substances or groups of substances as a heuristic device for exploring their complex networks and interdependencies.

[Perspectives on the medical history of cancer in the twentieth century]. / Themen und Perspektiven der medizinhistorischen Erforschung von Krebs im 20. Jahrhundert.

The article summarises the medical history of cancer in the twentieth century and comments on scientific explanations, therapeutic innovation, social circumstances and cultural interpretations of the disease.