Robert Juette, is 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/editor of over 30 books, the most recent a biography of the founder of homoeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843). He is the editor of the medico-historical journal Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte and the editor of Hahnemann's case books. He is a member of the Scientific Board of the German Medical Association and a member of the advisory board of the homeopathic journal Allgemeine Homoeopathische Zeitung.