Felix Rietmann
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Felix Rietmann is SNSF-funded assistant professor (SNSF Starting Grant) in the history of medicine focusing on the history of child health, the history of pharmaceuticals, and the visual and material culture of medicine from the late 18th century to the present. He leads a research group with the SNSF-Starting Grant project entitled Pediatric Drugs since 1945: From Local Practice to Global Politics. The project explores the history of the clinical use, political regulation and scientific marketing of pediatric pharmaceuticals in (and beyond) Switzerland across the twentieth century. Additionally, he is co-PI (with Martina King and Ralf Jox) of the interdisciplinary SNSF-funded project The ’hospital discharge letter’ through the lens of cultural studies. The project explores the history of the medical discharge report from the perspectives of the history of medicine, literary studies, and bioethics.
Before joining the University of Lausanne, Felix Rietmann was PI of the SNSF-Ambizione project Raising a Well-Grown Child: Media and Material Cultures of Child Health in the Early Nineteenth Century at the University of Fribourg. He is currently finalizing a book manuscript entiteled Watching Babies: A History of Infant Mental Health (in preparation for publication with the Chicago University Press) that tells the story of how the baby has become a patient in twentieth and twenty-first century mental healthcare. Additionally, he is working on another book project on the history of over-the-counter pediatric drugs in Switzerland. Since 2020, he is secretary of the Swiss Society for the History of Medicine, and, since 2024, he is board member of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health and co-editor-in-chief of the European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health.
Felix Rietmann was awarded a joint PhD from the Program in the History of Science and the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities at Princeton University (USA) in 2018. His PhD-thesis explores the use of audiovisual technologies in the history of early chilhood psychiatry. In 2010, he received a Doctor medicinae (doctoral degree in medicine) from the Charité Berlin (Germany) and an MSc in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology from Imperial College London (UK). In 2008, he graduated with an medical degree from the Charité. Subsequently, he worked as an assistant doctor in, first, internal medicine, and, later, pediatrics and child psychiatry.
Research Fields
- History of Medicine and Health (18th century to 21st century)
- History of Child Health, Pediatrics, Child Psychiatry, and Child Psychology
- History of Pharmaceuticals and the Pharmaceutical Market
- History of Medical Ethics (specifically, pediatric ethics)
- History of Medical Technology
- Medical and Scientific Film
- Medicine and Literature
- Visual and Material Culture of Medicine
- Historiography of Medicine and Science
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Av. de Provence 82
CH-1007 Lausanne
+41 21 314 7050