Ludwig Binswanger belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Ludwig Binswanger as Swiss psychiatrist and essayist (1881-1966).
Ludwig Binswanger was born at Kreuzlingen in 1881. His recorded nationality is Switzerland. He trained at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and University of Zurich.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
The recorded fields of work are psychiatry.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
Recognition followed: Golden Kraepelin Medal (1956).
That the work was done from Switzerland matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Ludwig Binswanger died in 1966, aged 85. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Golden Kraepelin Medal — 1956
- Fields: psychiatry
