Jorg Vogele, Director of the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Dusseldorf. He has lectured Modern History, Economic History and Medical History at the Universities of Constance, Liverpool, Prague, and Dusseldorf. Currently working on research projects on European Port Cities in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries and on the « Value of A Human Being in Demographic Sciences in Germany, 19th, 20th Centuries.