Heiner Fangerau (born 1972) is a German historian of medicine and medical ethicist at Heinrich-Heine-University of Duesseldorf.
According to his views ideas develop during a selection process which can be reconstructed by the investigation of connections between actors, artefacts and concepts.
[2] His main fields of research include the connection between biology and medicine around 1900, the history of diagnostic thinking during modernity, the history and ethics of modern psychiatry and neurology and the role of medical associations during the National Socialist regime.
Under his presidency the Society for the History of Science united with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik e.V.
[7] In 2014 Heiner Fangerau was granted an honorary degree of the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest.