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Robert Jütte, is currently Director of the Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation and Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Stuttgart. He is a social and medical historian and the author or editor of over 35 books, among them a biography of the founder of homoeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) and a book-length study on the history of the Q-potencies. He is the editor of the medico-historical journal Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte and the editor of Hahnemann’s case books. He is vice-chairman of the steering committee of the Scientific Board of the German Medical Association and a member of the advisory board of the homeopathic journal Allgemeine Homoeopathische Zeitung.