Irmgard Oepen
Irmgard Oepen (February 25, 1929 – July 9, 2018) was a German physician and medical journalist. She was known for her steadfast criticism of alternative medicine, especially of homeopathy.[1]
Education and career
Irmgard Oepen studied medicine at the
Philipps University of Marburg with a study of blood group serology.[2]
Oepen worked from 1965 to 1994 at the Institute for Legal Medicine of Philipps-University Marburg. She was known for her commitment to scientific medicine.[1][3] She published numerous articles critical of homeopathy and other alternative medical practices such as astrological health counseling.[2][4]
Her work has been mentioned in
Oepen was one of the founding members of the
The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.[2]
Works
- Leitfaden der gerichtlich-medizinischen Blutspuren-Untersuchung, mit Franz Schleyer, Schmidt-Römhild Verlag, 1977
- An den Grenzen der Schulmedizin, Deutscher Ärzteverlag, 1985
- Außenseitermethoden in der Medizin, mit O. Prokop (Herausgeber), ISBN 3534017366
- Unkonventionelle medizinische Verfahren, ISBN 3437007254
- Lexikon der Parawissenschaften, GWUP, Lit, Münster 1999
- Irmgard Oepen, Horst Löb: Der Orgon-Strahler – eine funktionslose, aber offenbar gewinnbringende Attrappe. Skeptiker 11 (4/1998) 148–152
- Irmgard Oepen: Unkonventionelle medizinische Verfahren. Stuttgart 1993
- Irmgard Oepen, Amardeo Sarma (Hrsg.): Paramedizin - Analysen und Kommentare. Münster 1998
- Irmgard Oepen, Rolf Scheidt: Wunderheiler heute. Eine kritische Literaturstudie. München, Zuckschwerdt 1989
References
- ^ a b c Harder (2018)
- ^ a b c Skeptiker Magazine (2007)
- ^ Zeit Online (1993): Although homeopathic theories may once have been contemporary, Irmgard Oepen says that they have now proved misleading and ineffective. Consequently, university teachers should distance themselves from homeopathy just as much as from astrological health counseling or palm reading.
- ^ Hövelmann & Michels (2017): Frau Prof. Oepen was (and still is) one of the most influential German critics of all conceivable varieties of alternative or complementary medicine, with a huge number of publications to her credit.
- ^ Zeit Online (1993)
- ^ Harder (2018): In 1986 she published with the East Berlin forensic scientist Otto Prokop the standard work "Outsider methods in medicine: origins, dangers, consequences."
- ^ In English: Society for the scientific study of para-sciences
Sources
- Harder, Bernd (2018). In Memoriam: Prof. Irmgard Oepen, Gründungspräsidentin der GWUP, July 11, 2018
- Skeptiker magazine (2007). GWUP interview with Irmgard Oepen 3-4/2007
- Hövelmann, Gerd H. & Michels, Hans (2017). Legitimacy of Unbelief: The Collected Papers of Piet Hein Hoebens edited by Gerd H. Hövelmann, Hans Michels, Publisher: LIT Verlag, April 2017, ISBN 9783643908551
- Zeit Online (1993). Der Glaubenskrieg um die Homöopathie eskaliert: Der Bannstrahl des Äskulap (English: The religious war over homeopathy escalates), March 5, 1993
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