Aligning Faith with Medicine: Medical Ethics, Reproduction and Catholic Morality in Francophone and Anglophone Normative Literature, c. 1840–1960 (2022)
Journal Article
Gijbels, J., Lancaster, C., Maehle, A., & Vander Hulst, R. (2022). Aligning Faith with Medicine: Medical Ethics, Reproduction and Catholic Morality in Francophone and Anglophone Normative Literature, c. 1840–1960. Journal of Religious History, 46(3), 439-459. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.12871

This paper focuses on intersections of medical ethics and religious commitments by charting conceptions of the Catholic doctor in French and English-language normative texts from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Behavioural norms for... Read More about Aligning Faith with Medicine: Medical Ethics, Reproduction and Catholic Morality in Francophone and Anglophone Normative Literature, c. 1840–1960.

A Short History of British Medical Ethics (2021)
Book
Maehle, A. (2021). A Short History of British Medical Ethics. Ockham Publishing

Beyond Professional Self-Interest: Medical Ethics and the Disciplinary Function of the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom, 1858-1914 (2018)
Journal Article
Maehle, A. (2020). Beyond Professional Self-Interest: Medical Ethics and the Disciplinary Function of the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom, 1858-1914. Social History of Medicine, 33(1), 41-56. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hky072

Traditional historiography tends to draw a negative picture of British doctors’ ethics during the long nineteenth century. The medical professional ethics of this period have been described as self-serving and as a tool to monopolise the health care... Read More about Beyond Professional Self-Interest: Medical Ethics and the Disciplinary Function of the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom, 1858-1914.

A Dangerous Method? The German Discourse on Hypnotic Suggestion Therapy around 1900 (2017)
Journal Article
Maehle, A. (2017). A Dangerous Method? The German Discourse on Hypnotic Suggestion Therapy around 1900. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, 71(2), 197-211. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2017.0006

In the late nineteenth century, German-speaking physicians and psychiatrists intensely debated the benefits and risks of treatment by hypnotic suggestion. While practitioners of the method sought to provide convincing evidence for its therapeutic eff... Read More about A Dangerous Method? The German Discourse on Hypnotic Suggestion Therapy around 1900.

Contesting Medical Confidentiality: Origins of the Debate in the United States, Britain, and Germany (2016)
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Maehle, A. (2016). Contesting Medical Confidentiality: Origins of the Debate in the United States, Britain, and Germany. The University of Chicago Press

Preserving Confidentiality or Obstructing Justice? Historical Perspectives on a Medical Privilege in Court (2015)
Journal Article
Maehle, A. (2015). Preserving Confidentiality or Obstructing Justice? Historical Perspectives on a Medical Privilege in Court. Journal of medical law and ethics, 3(1-2), 91-108. https://doi.org/10.7590/221354015x14319325750151

An important problem for medical confidentiality in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was the question if doctors could be required to give evidence in court about their patients’ condition. On the one hand, knowledge that personal informa... Read More about Preserving Confidentiality or Obstructing Justice? Historical Perspectives on a Medical Privilege in Court.

The powers of suggestion: Albert Moll and the debate on hypnosis (2014)
Journal Article
Maehle, A. (2014). The powers of suggestion: Albert Moll and the debate on hypnosis. History of Psychiatry, 25(1), 3-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154x13500596

The Berlin physician Albert Moll (1862–1939) was an advocate of hypnotic suggestion therapy and a prolific contributor to the medical, legal and public discussions on hypnotism from the 1880s to the 1920s. While his work in other areas, such as sexol... Read More about The powers of suggestion: Albert Moll and the debate on hypnosis.

Four early clinical studies to assess the effects of Peruvian bark (2013)
Journal Article
Maehle, A. (2013). Four early clinical studies to assess the effects of Peruvian bark. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 106(4), 150-155. https://doi.org/10.1177/0141076813482256

From the late seventeenth century onwards, in vitro and animal experimentation, chemical tests and microscopical observation, and the analysis of single case histories were used to understand the pharmacology and therapeutic properties of the Peruvia... Read More about Four early clinical studies to assess the effects of Peruvian bark.

'God's Ethicist': Albert Moll and His Medical Ethics in Theory and Practice (2012)
Journal Article
Maehle, A. (2012). 'God's Ethicist': Albert Moll and His Medical Ethics in Theory and Practice. Medical History, 56(2), 217-236. https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2011.34

Medical Ethics and the Law (2011)
Book Chapter
Maehle, A. (2011). Medical Ethics and the Law. In M. Jackson (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine (543-560). Oxford University Press

Doctors in Court, Honour, and Professional Ethics: Two Scandals in Imperial Germany (2011)
Journal Article
Maehle, A. (2011). Doctors in Court, Honour, and Professional Ethics: Two Scandals in Imperial Germany. Gesnerus, 68(1), 61-79

Ambiguous cells: the emergence of the stem cell concept in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (2011)
Journal Article
Maehle, A. (2011). Ambiguous cells: the emergence of the stem cell concept in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, 65(4), 359-378. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2011.0023

'Patient trade' in Germany: an ethical issue at the practitioner-clinician interface in 1909 and 2009 (2010)
Journal Article
Maehle, A. (2010). 'Patient trade' in Germany: an ethical issue at the practitioner-clinician interface in 1909 and 2009. Medical Humanities, 36(2), 84-87. https://doi.org/10.1136/jmh.2010.004655

In 2009 the German media featured the so-called ‘patient trade’ scandal. Offending against the rules of the professional code for German doctors, some medical practitioners had accepted bonus payments from specific hospitals for referring patients to... Read More about 'Patient trade' in Germany: an ethical issue at the practitioner-clinician interface in 1909 and 2009.

Medical confidentiality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: an Anglo-German comparison (2010)
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Maehle, A., & Pranghofer, S. (2010). Medical confidentiality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: an Anglo-German comparison. Medizinhistorisches Journal, 45(2), 189-221

Professional secrecy of doctors became an issue of considerable medico-legal and political debate in the late ineteenth and early twentieth centuries in both Germany and England, although the legal preconditions for this debate were quite different i... Read More about Medical confidentiality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: an Anglo-German comparison.

Eine Kultur der Ehre: Ärztliche Berufsethik im Deutschen Kaiserreich zwischen Moral und Recht (2010)
Book Chapter
Maehle, A. (2010). Eine Kultur der Ehre: Ärztliche Berufsethik im Deutschen Kaiserreich zwischen Moral und Recht. In W. Bruchhausen, & H. Hofer (Eds.), Ärztliches Ethos im Kontext : Historische, phänomenologische und didaktische Analysen (59-73). Bonn University Press

English summary: Medical ethos in the sphere of influence of various non-medical interests is the focus of this anthology - an issue that is often neglected in the study of medicine and the history of medicine. Spectacular questions concerning medica... Read More about Eine Kultur der Ehre: Ärztliche Berufsethik im Deutschen Kaiserreich zwischen Moral und Recht.

The Ethics of Experimenting on Animal Subjects. (2009)
Book Chapter
Maehle, A. (2009). The Ethics of Experimenting on Animal Subjects. In R. B. Baker, & L. B. McCullough (Eds.), The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics (552-557.). Cambridge University Press

The Discourses of Practitioners in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany. (2009)
Book Chapter
Maehle, A., & Troehler, U. (2009). The Discourses of Practitioners in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany. In R. B. Baker, & L. B. McCullough (Eds.), The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics (432-438.). Cambridge University Press

A binding question: the evolution of the receptor concept (2009)
Journal Article
Maehle, A. (2009). A binding question: the evolution of the receptor concept. Endeavour, 33(4), 134-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2009.09.001

In present-day pharmacology and medicine, it is usually taken for granted that cells contain a host of highly specific receptors. These are defined as proteins on or within the cell that bind with specificity to particular drugs, chemical messenger s... Read More about A binding question: the evolution of the receptor concept.

A Short History of the Drug Receptor Concept (2009)
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Pruell, C., Maehle, A., & Halliwell, R. (2009). A Short History of the Drug Receptor Concept. Palgrave Macmillan

Humans have long used plant and animal extracts for their medicinal properties but until the end of the 19th century their actions were often explained in a speculative manner. The systematic study of drugs did not begin until the 1860s, and the conc... Read More about A Short History of the Drug Receptor Concept.

Doctors, Honour and the Law: Medical Ethics in Imperial Germany (2009)
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Maehle, A. (2009). Doctors, Honour and the Law: Medical Ethics in Imperial Germany. Palgrave Macmillan

Medical ethics in Imperial Germany were deeply entangled in professional, legal and social issues. This book shows how doctors' ethical decision-making during the Kaiserreich was guided by their notions of male honour and professional reputation and... Read More about Doctors, Honour and the Law: Medical Ethics in Imperial Germany.