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Teaching and research

Lectures and seminars

Over three decades (1968-1977; 1982-2006), I taught at several universities (Bochum, Berlin, Hamburg) 43 different subjects, with up to 16 hours per week. This teaching I did as a student tutor, part-time assistant, part-time lecturer, associate professor, and finally professor. I taught the following subjects:

theories of learning, theories of personality;
introduction to methodical work, empirical work-1, -2, statistics-1, -2, factor analysis, experiment, theory of science;
data processing-1, -2, programming in BASIC;
social medicine-1, -2, pathology-1, -2, geriatry, AIDS, pharmacology-1, -2, women´s health;
health policy-1, -2, public health, social work in public health;
epidemiology-1, -2, health reports;
occupational medicine-1, -2, workplace health-promotion, occupational psychology, sociology of work;
environmental medicine, preventive policy, environmental justce;
urban sociology;
social policy-1, -2, politics-1, -2, globalization.

Teaching materials

For my lectures, I produced written material (readers, lecture notes), which had to be regularly updated; e.g.:

introduction to social medicine for social workers (reader). 1990
introduction to occupational medicine for social workers (reader). 1990
introduction to pharmacology for social workers (reader). 1991
introduction to health policy for social workers (reader). 1991
illnesses of older age (reader). 1992
introduction to epidemiology and biostatistics-1, -2 (reader). 1994/5
sociology-3: work (lecture notes). 2001
new social movements (reader). 2003
report on women´s health (reader). 2003
environmental justice (reader). 2004
social policy-1, -2 (lecture notes; 4 editions, last 2005). 2005
urban sociology, social geography, housing policy (reader). 2006
globalization (reader). 2006
political system of West Germany (reader). 2006

Empirical research

I did empirical research in the following projects:

1970-72	job profile of industrial designers	empirical diploma study: mainly qualitative interviews	self-financed
1971-72	programmed instruction for teaching architecture (APIA)	mainly development of teaching materials	funded by VW foundation
1977-83	industrial work and myocardial infarction, at WZB (Science Center Berlin)	large study (n > 500), quantitative interviews, statistical analysis	funded by BMFT (Federal Ministry for Research and Technology), in the programm HdA (humanization of work)
1983-84	health consequences of occupational down-grading	small (n > 40) explorative study, qualitative interviews	self-funded by WZB
1989-91	AIDS-prevention for lower-class male adolescents	small (n > ..) sstudy, qualitative interviews	funded by BMG (Federal Ministry of Health)
1997-98	MCS and occupation	large study (n > 600), quantitative interviews, statistical analysis	small funding by Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
2001-03	environmental justice in Hamburg	analysis of secondary data	self-financed
2005	environmental justice policy in Scotland	analysis of secondary data, few qualitative expert interviews (n = ..)	self-financed

Theoretical work

Theoretical work on the following subjects:

social science methodology,theory of science,
general medicine, e.g., AIDS, gerontopsychiatry,
occupational medicine, e.g., industrial work and myocardial infarction, neurotoxic workplace-chemicals, occupational diseases, workplace-chemicals and cardiovascular disease,
environmental medicine, e.g., MCS (multiple chemical sensitivity),
environmental policy, e.g., evaluative controversies in regard to preventive policy, envoronmental justice, water privatization, fracking, TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Program).

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