麻豆传媒

As a cultural historian I am working in the field of medical humanities with a focus on history of medicine, sexualities, gender, and bodies. I studied Modern European History, History of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Theatre Studies, and Cultural Anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilian's University Munich (M.A. in History, 1989), the University of Oxford, and Humboldt University Berlin (Dr. phil. in History, 1996).

From 1990 to 1992, I worked as Research Assistant for the late Professor Thomas Nipperdey at the Institute for Modern History, Munich University. From 1994 to 2003, I was Lecturer in history of medicine at the Institute for History of Medicine, Medical Faculty, Albert-Ludwig's University Freiburg, and from 2003 to 2017 at Durham University (Wellcome University Award Holder 2003-8, since 2010 Senior Lecturer). In August 2017, I joined 麻豆传媒 as Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities (History of Medicine). I am member of the Population Health Sciences Institute, the Steering Group of the Medical Humanities Network in the Humanities Reserach Institute, and a member of the Gender Research Group.

From 2000 to 2012, I served on the Executive Committee of the (a registered charity organisation; Charity number 278414) and have been the the Society's Chair from 2008 to 2011.

Areas of Expertise

• History of Bodies
• History of Sexualities and Gender
  
• History of Public Health in the 19th and 20th Centuries
• History of Medical Ethics in the 19th and 20th Centuries
• History of Venereal Diseases/STIs

Undergraduate Teaching

• Lecturer on the module 'Evidence and Argument' (HIS1100)
• Lecturer on the module 'What's History For?' (HIS1105)
• Lecturer on the module 'Crafting History' (HIS2304)
• Lecturer on the module 'Diversities of Sexuality and Gender in History' (HIS2322)
• Lecturer on the UG dissertation module 'Writing History' (HIS3020)
• Personal Tutor

Postgraduate Teaching

MA History

• Lecturer on the module 'In Sickness and in Health' (HIS8173)
• Supervisor of MA dissertation projects

Public and Global Health Programme:

• Supervisor of MSc projects in Public and Global Health
• MSc Public Health: Personal Tutor

Current MPhil Student

• Neil Brenner, MBBS MRCPsych: Representation of Male Madness in 19th-Century Opera.

Current PhD Students

First Supervisor:

• Ryan Fallon: Finding the Voice of the Child Patient: The Stannington Children’s Hospital, 1920-1980. (Funded by ).
• Alessandro Bianchi: The Most Social of Maladies: The ‘Social Imaginary’ of Madness in France and England, 1789-1838. (Illand PhD studentship).

Second Supervisor:

• Kyra Helberg: The Evolving Role of Dissection in Pre-Anaesthetic Surgical Education, Practice, and Professional Identity, 1746–1846.
• Charlotte White: A Guide to Good Health: Visual Representations of Morality, the Environment and Tuberculosis in Early 20^th Century Art and Print Culture.

Past PhD Students at 麻豆传媒

• Heather Dixon: Risk, Play and the Body in the Design of Sex Education Programmes: A Co-Design Study with Three North East Organisations (Viva 2023).

Current Research Projects

History of sex education in Germany, 1880s to ca 1980

This project investigates the cultural history of sex education of young people in Germany from around 1900 to the end of the 1970s. It offers the first comprehensive investigation of sex education from late Imperial and Weimar Germany, to the Third Reich and post-war Germany in English language. It takes the political, social and cultural context of sex education into account but the main focus is on a detailed analysis of the content of sex education material that has been produced for the purpose of teaching and informing young people about sexuality.

Studying sex education material provides important insight into the shaping of gender and sexual identities in relation to knowledge of the body, cultural scripts of erotic and sexual practices, and sexual morality and risky behaviours. At the centre of my project is the question how different forms of textual, verbal and visual material constructed gendered bodies and shaped the construction of ‘heterosexuality’. Sex education material reflects and simultaneously shapes understandings of gender in a society as well as its changing moral and sexual fears, what, for instance, was assumed to be ‘normal’, acceptable sexual behaviour. Sex education material, therefore, can be read as a culturally and historically contingent repertoire of concepts of the gendered body. It tells us what kind of sexual knowledge at specific points of time was perceived by society as important to be conveyed to the young – and what was to be kept secret from them (e.g. for a long time birth control methods), hence what sex education material was silent about.

History of Puberty in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Key Publications:

List of key publications:

• Articles

  • Sauerteig L. . Medizinhistorisches Journal 2025. In Press.
  • Sauerteig L. . Virus. Beiträge zur Sozialgeschichte der Medizin 2020, 18, 213-245.
  • Sauerteig LDH. . Le rideau déchiré: La sexologie à l'heure de la guerre froide 2020, 37, 55-78.
  • Sauerteig L. . Jugendbewegung und Jugendkulturen 2019, 15, 213-251.
  • Sauerteig LDH. . Medical History 2012, 56(2), 156-183.
  • Maehle AH, Sauerteig LDH. . Medical History 2012, 56(2), 123-132.
  • Sauerteig L. . Sexuologie. Zeitschrift für Sexualmedizin, Sexualtherapie und Sexualwissenschaft 2012, 19(3-4), 111-118.
  • Sauerteig L. . WerkstattGeschichte 2008, 16 (2007)(47), 40-60.
  • Sauerteig L. Die Herstellung des sexuellen und erotischen Körpers in der westdeutschen Jugendzeitschrift BRAVO in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren. Medizinhistorisches Journal 2007, 42, 142-179.

• Authored Book

  • Sauerteig L. . Stuttgart: Franz Steinger, 1999.

• Book Chapters

  • Sauerteig L. . In: Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, ed. Neue Deutsche Biographie. Berlin: Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2020, pp.446-447.
  • Sauerteig LDH. . In: Niethammer,L; Satjukow,S, ed. ‘Wenn die Chemie stimmt...’. Geschlechterbeziehungen und Geburtenkontrolle im Zeitalter der ‘Pille’ / Gender Relations and Birth Control in the Age of the ‘Pill’. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2016, pp.211-241.
  • Sauerteig LDH. . In: Beauthier, R.; Piette, V.; Truffin, B, ed. La modernisation de la sexualité, 19e-20e siècles. Bruxelles: Editions de l'Université Bruxelles, 2010, pp.137-151.
  • Sauerteig L. . In: Bänzinger, PP; Duttweiler, S; Sarasin, P; Wellmann, W, ed. Fragen Sie Dr. Sex! - Ratgeberkommunikation und die mediale Konstruktion des Sexuellen. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2010, pp.123-158.
  • Sauerteig LDH. . In: Sauerteig, LDH; Davidson, R, ed. Shaping Sexual Knowledge: A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth-Century Europe. New York, London: Routledge, 2009, pp.129-160.

• Edited Book

  • Sauerteig LDH, Davidson R, ed. . London, New York: Routledge, 2009.